Digi-Key is now selling the gallium nitride (GaN)-based power management devices from EPC.
Last year, EPC introduced its first commercial enhancement-mode GaN transistors.
The supplier claims these can have “characteristics similar to silicon power mosfets”.
"EPC's gallium nitride-based power management products bring intriguing next-generation breakthrough benefits to existing mosfet and bipolar solutions," said Dave Doherty, Digi-Key's v-p of semiconductor product.
The market for silicon carbide (SiC) and gallium nitride (GaN) power devices could be worth as much as $160m within three years, according to market watcher IMS Research.
This would represent a significant growth in the market which was worth just $22,000 in 2009.
“The next three years will be an important stage in the development of the SiC and GaN power device market. Applications other than PFC power supplies are forecast to begin to adopt these new power devices,” said Josh Flood, research analyst at IMS Research.
Established in 2007, EPC is a fabless chip company with subcontract manufacturing in Taiwan.
Its products voltage controllers, LED boost converters, power mosfets and IGBT replacements, drivers, power amplifiers and RF mosfets.
EPC's chips cover operating voltages of up to 200V.
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