27-28 August 2025
Suwon
11:00 – 11:20
BelGaN – Moving to The Next Chapter
Started early 2022 as a new GaN-focused foundry at the heart of Europe, BelGaN announced early August 2023 the production-release of its 1st generation 650V eGaN technology, preparing for ramp-up by end 2023.
Meanwhile BelGaN also launched GaN-ValleyTM, grouping over 40 members in a European ecosystem of Academia and Industry along the GaN value chain, to accelerate innovation and scale-up of a GaN industry in Europe and beyond, towards a sustainable electrified future, aligned with the European ambitions of ChipsAct and Green Deal. Exciting times at rocket speed!
The presentation will walk through the journey of bringing up BelGaN technology at record speed and will describe status and offering, with a view on the roadmap.
It will outline various differentiated services that BelGaN offers to its customers:
(1) harvesting innovation (‘Lab-to-Fab’); (2) automotive quality to our customers’ customers; (3) GaN chip design services.
Finally, it will give an update on the GaN-ValleyTM status and ambitions.
Marnix Tack, Ph.D.
Dr. Tack got a MSc degree in Electronic Engineering in 1984 from the Univ of Gent (Belgium) and a PhD degree in Microelectronics in 1990 from the Univ of Leuven & imec (Belgium). He got additional degrees in international business management and innovation leadership from the Vlerick Business School (Belgium), INSEAD (France), MIT (US) and IMD (Swiss). He joined MIETEC, a semiconductor company in Belgium in 1990, that became Alcatel Microelectronics, and was acquired by AMI Semiconductor in 2002 and ON Semiconductor in 2008.
In Feb 2022 he joined BelGaN that acquired part of onsemi in Belgium, as formerly CTO and VP Business Development.
Throughout the past 30+ years he was leading global professional teams in various fields of semiconductor R&D and Innovation, including Si CMOS & BCD, power MOSFETs and GaN. He also took the lead in setting up and driving a corporate innovation business process and global Open Innovation partnerships in the field of novel semiconductor technologies and products