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contact@alphapowersemiconductor.comAlpha Power Semiconductor is a holding company of semiconductor ventures, with projects in development across Asia and the Middle East.
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Inside a silicon carbide wafer
Stacked together, these layers make power chips that waste less energy at high voltage: in EV drivetrains, fast chargers, solar inverters and data-centre power supplies.
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A journey of a thousand miles
begins with a single chip.
01 / Portfolio
Each venture is its own company, with its own partners, financing and site.
Silicon Carbide Fabrication Venture
A full-scale fab producing silicon carbide wafers and power devices on 6-inch and 8-inch lines.
Silicon Carbide Fabrication Venture
A silicon carbide fab serving the region's growing demand for power electronics in energy, mobility and data infrastructure.
Advanced Packaging & InP Substrates
Planned expansion into advanced packaging and indium phosphide substrate production for photonics and RF.
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02 / Technology
A fab, short for fabrication plant, is where wafers become chips. Inside a cleanroom, each wafer passes through hundreds of steps. Layers are grown, patterned, etched, implanted and metallised until every die on the wafer is a working device.
Alpha Power's fabs will make silicon carbide power devices: the chips that switch and convert electricity in electric vehicles, chargers, solar inverters and data-centre power supplies.
Silicon carbide power devices
03 / Supply chain
Every chip depends on designs, materials, machines and people that come from a small number of places. The flows below show where each part of the chain starts and where it goes.
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Critical inputs
Every chip passes through dozens of steps, and several of them depend on a single country or company. When one link breaks, factories stop, as car plants did during the 2021 chip shortage.
Every phone, car, data centre and power grid runs on chips. Each chip passes through dozens of steps before it ships, and several of those steps depend on a single country or a single company. China refines most of the world's rare earths and produces most of its gallium. One company in the Netherlands builds every EUV lithography machine in use. Helium, which fabs cannot do without, comes mainly from the United States and Qatar. Most chip design happens in the US, most advanced manufacturing in Taiwan, and most of the engineers who know how to run a fab work there too.
When one link breaks, the effect spreads fast. During the 2021 chip shortage, car plants around the world stood idle for months for want of parts that cost a few dollars.
Governments now treat chips as strategic infrastructure. New fabs in new regions spread that risk, which is why Alpha Power builds silicon carbide capacity close to growing demand.
Governments now treat semiconductors as strategic infrastructure. New fabs in new regions shorten these chains, spread the risk, and bring manufacturing closer to the industries that use the chips.
That is the reason Alpha Power builds where it does: silicon carbide capacity close to growing demand for electric vehicles, renewable energy and data centres, with packaging and indium phosphide to follow.
The chain, end to end
Chips are designed in EDA software from three companies, two American and one German, often on licensed processor IP. Most leading designers are fabless and own no factory.
Chips are designed in software from three companies, and most designers own no factory.
CONCENTRATED INUnited States · UK · Taiwan
Silicon and compound wafers, photoresists, ultra-pure gases and critical minerals. Japan leads in wafers and resists; China refines most rare earths and gallium.
Wafers, chemicals, gases and critical minerals, led by Japan and China.
CONCENTRATED INJapan · China · United States
Lithography, deposition, etch and inspection machines. ASML is the only maker of EUV systems; most other tool types come from the US and Japan.
Lithography, etch and inspection tools, mostly from the US, the Netherlands and Japan.
CONCENTRATED INUnited States · Netherlands · Japan
Wafers pass through hundreds of steps in cleanrooms. Most advanced logic capacity sits in Taiwan, with Korea second.
Hundreds of cleanroom steps turn wafers into chips, mostly in Taiwan and Korea.
CONCENTRATED INTaiwan · Korea · China
Finished wafers are cut into dies, packaged and tested, often in another country. Advanced packaging now shapes the performance of AI chips.
Wafers are cut into dies, packaged and tested, often in another country.
CONCENTRATED INTaiwan · China · Southeast Asia
Yield depends on engineers who have ramped fabs before. Most of them work in Taiwan, and new fabs abroad have had to borrow them.
Yield depends on experienced engineers, and most of them work in Taiwan.
CONCENTRATED INTaiwan · Korea · Japan
A large fab draws as much power as a small city and uses millions of litres of ultra-pure water a day. Cheap, steady power is a precondition.
A large fab uses as much power as a small city and millions of litres of water a day.
ADVANTAGERegions with low-cost, reliable power
Chips go into cars, phones, data centres, power grids and defence systems. Power chips grow with electrification and AI.
Cars, phones, data centres and power grids, with demand rising alongside electrification and AI.
CONCENTRATED INGlobal
The talent constraint
Tools can be ordered, but experienced fab engineers are scarce and most of them work in Taiwan. Alpha Power's operating team comes from Taiwan's compound semiconductor industry and trains local engineers at every venture.
Tools and materials can be ordered. Experience has to be hired, and there is very little of it. A fab's economics depend on yield, and yield comes from engineers who have ramped production lines before and know how to find and fix the defects that ruin wafers.
Most of those engineers are in Taiwan, trained over three decades inside the world's largest foundry cluster. New fabs in the United States, Japan and Europe have relied on teams sent from Taiwan to start production, and training local engineers to the same level takes years. Any region that wants its own chip industry runs into this before it runs into anything else.
Alpha Power's answer is to bring that experience with it. The operating team comes from Taiwan's compound semiconductor industry, and every venture includes a programme to train local engineers alongside them.
04 / Devices
The diodes and transistors our fab ventures will manufacture.
SBD diode structureTYPE / SBD
Fast switching with almost no reverse recovery loss. Suited to high-frequency circuits that need a low forward voltage.
JBS diode structureTYPE / JBS
High blocking voltage with low conduction and leakage losses. Handles surge currents well and stays efficient under stress.
PIN diode structureTYPE / PIN
The highest blocking voltage and current handling of the three, with low leakage. Used where voltages are highest.
TYPE / MOSFET
The main switch in modern power electronics. Low switching losses and high blocking voltage in one device, used in EV inverters, chargers and solar converters.
05 / Applications
Silicon carbide power chips go wherever electricity is converted at high voltage. Six markets drive most of the demand.
Cars, trucks and electric aircraft
Traction inverters, on-board chargers and DC-DC converters. Silicon carbide extends driving range and allows faster charging on 800-volt platforms.
650–1,200 VDC fast-charging infrastructure
High-power chargers that need to be compact, efficient and cool. Fewer losses mean smaller cabinets and lower running costs.
1,200 VServer and rack power
Power supplies and distribution for AI servers, where each percentage point of efficiency saves megawatts of power and cooling.
650–1,200 VSolar, wind and batteries
Solar inverters, wind converters and battery storage systems that send more of the generated energy to the grid.
1,200–1,700 VTransmission and traction
Grid converters, solid-state transformers and rail traction, where voltages are highest and reliability matters most.
1,700–3,300 VMotors, drives and automation
Motor drives, robotics and factory automation, where efficient switching cuts energy use and heat.
650–1,700 V06 / Partners
JJ Material
Acter
SEM
CHEC
Nova Tech
CKIC
JJP Architects
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