14:15 – 14:35
How foundry services can help to build customized solutions in an evolving SiC Market?
In the rapidly advancing field of renewable energy, Silicon Carbide (SiC) technology stands as a key enabler of the next generation of high-performance power electronics. Here we will examine the critical challenges and emerging opportunities within the sector and highlight how X-FAB innovations are providing a powerful platform for the accelerated development and deployment of customized SiC solutions.
The growing adoption of EV applications, the power bottleneck in data centers and the need for renewable energy solutions has compelled X-FAB to focus it efforts on creating high performing products for automotive, industrial and energy markets, We leverage our expertise in SiC technology and our advanced approach to process integration, we have optimized development cycles, dramatically reducing time to market and equipping customers with a distinct competitive advantage. Attendees will gain valuable insights into how our comprehensive solutions drive rapid innovation, accommodate diverse customer needs, and support the scalable adoption of SiC technologies in propelling global renewable energy initiatives forward.
Rico Tillner
X-FAB
Rico Tillner has 19 years of experience in the semiconductor industry. After his master’s degree in electrical engineering at Technical University Dresden he started his career at X-FAB Dresden. From 2007 until 2015 he worked as Process integration engineer, responsible for a 0.6µm automotive mixed signal technology. In 2016 he becomes the quality manager of X-Fab Dresden. From 2018 until 2023 Rico Tillner was the site manager and CEO of X-FAB in Dresden. 2023 he moved to the United States to start his new role as CEO of X-FAB Texas in Lubbock, TX.
Company Profile
X-FAB is one of the world’s leading specialty foundry groups for analog/mixed-signal semiconductor technologies with a clear focus on automotive, industrial, and medical applications. As a pure-play foundry, X-FAB provides manufacturing and design support services to customers that design analog/mixed-signal integrated circuits (ICs) and other semiconductor devices for use in their own products or the products of their customers. Its customers worldwide benefit from the highest quality standards, manufacturing excellence and innovative solutions by using X-FAB’s modular CMOS and SOI processes in geometries ranging from 1.0 µm to 110 nm, and its special micro-electro-mechanical systems (MEMS) processes. X-FAB is also the first pure-play foundry to provide comprehensive processing technologies for the wide-bandgap materials silicon carbide (SiC) and gallium nitride (GaN). The GaN-on-Si wafers are manufactured in its modern 8” fab in Dresden, Germany, and SiC wafers in the 6” fab in Lubbock, Texas, USA. X-FAB runs six production facilities in Germany, France, Malaysia and the U.S. The company employs about 4,200 people worldwide.
