Forum May 29, 2024 | 2PM (Stockholm) | online via Zoom
Pre-competitive collaboration in SiC wafer manufacturing and technology development using wafers.
Such collaboration can pool resources, share knowledge, and tackle common challenges that benefit the entire industry, rather than providing a direct competitive edge to any one participant.
In Europe there is challenge in ordering wafers. Wafers suppliers are tied to their industries. We can order from outside Europe, but that is an unceratainty in how supply chain will look like in the future. Then there is also uncertainty about having same wafer quality in next round of development. It is also part of local resilience motivation.
We can create a pool of demand for future 8 inch wafers to R&D and SMEs and reduce price because we are a pool.
The SiC applications would grow substantially by availability of wafers that has common standard and platform. More together will take the applications further.