Power GaN startup acquires wafer fab
The company is a spin-off from Cornell University founded in April 2019.
The 10,000 square foot facility has a mix of Class 1,000 and Class 10,000 clean rooms and is suitable for compound semiconductor device development and small-scale production with a wafer capacity exceeding 10,000 wafer starts per year, Odyssey said.
Odyssey did not state the original owner of the wafer fab which has been sold on with i-line lithography steppers adapted for handling wafer sizes up to 200mm in diameter. There are also etch, sputtering, deposition and packaging tools that will allow Odyssey to develop its higher than 1,000V GaN power transistor technology.
Up until now Odyssey has been using contract services to develop its vertical-conduction transistors. Odyssey co-founder and CEO, Rick Brown, said the acquisition should bring forward prototype and commercial production.
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