News: Microelectronics
5 February 2025
APC chooses Luminus as worldwide sales channel and go-to-market partner
APC Electronics (APC-E) of Bend, OR, USA — which researches, develops and manufactures wide-bandgap power semiconductor products — has announced Luminus Devices Inc of Sunnyvale, CA, USA — which designs and makes LEDs and solid-state technology (SST) light sources for illumination markets — as its exclusive worldwide sales channel and go-to-market partner.
Led by power semiconductor veterans CEO Dr W Albert Gu and CTO Dumitru G. Sdrulla, APC-E’s team has invested several years developing IP around unique silicon carbide (SiC) power devices and gate drivers, and several of these products will be introduced to the market in 2025. APC says that its technologies serve to improve reliability, switching speed and energy efficiency, and enable new system architectures in diverse applications such as industrial power supplies, wind turbines, energy storage, motor driving, data centers, server farms, HVAC, electric vehicle (EV) charging, high-speed rail, and photovoltaics. APC-E and Luminus are targeting these high-power industries where the benefits of APC-E’s SiC field-effect transistor (FET) devices can be leveraged to help the industry meet the rapidly growing global demand for electrical power, driven largely by AI data centers and EVs.
APC-E’s initial product launch includes 650V SiC Schottky barrier diodes (SBDs) with remarkably low forward voltage to enhance energy savings in power supplies across a wide range of applications. Also included in the first wave of products are 1200V SiC SBDs with high surge capability and general purpose industrial SiC MOSFETs. Second-half 2025 will bring unique products such as SiC MOSFETs with high switching speeds and matched isolated gate drivers and electrically isolated packages to enable more efficient thermal system solutions.
“We are excited to leverage the global Luminus sales and marketing team, especially their USA regional manufacturers reps and distributors to launch our new line of products and work closely with customers in helping them leverage the many advantages of our proprietary devices as the industry rises to meet the seemingly insatiable appetite for electrical power while calling for efficiency improvement as well as system size and weight reduction,” says Gu.
“Our partnership with APC-E brings value to our customers that will expand widely in the coming years as they will see the unique, elegant solutions that APC-E has been developing,” says Luminus Devices’ CEO Mark Pugh. “While the power grid struggles to keep up with growing demand from power-hungry AI data centers and EVs, the APC-E product line enables new levels of efficiency to help the industry bridge gaps and reduce waste.”
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