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Semiconductors & Chipmaking · Recorded milestone

Silicon carbide power chips

Recorded year2011

Cree sells the first silicon carbide power MOSFET, switching high voltages with far lower losses, later key to EV inverters.

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Built on

MOSFETRecorded · 1959enables
Power transistors (IGBT)Recorded · 1983enables

Led to

Megawatt multi-vendor grid-forming test programRecorded · 2024alternative
Solid-state transformersForecast · ~2028enables
Chip crystals grown in orbitForecast · ~2032enables

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Dataset updated 2026-10-18. This individual record has not been separately re-reviewed.