CDIL to make silicon carbide devices for EVs, solar panels
₹30 crore, taking the total production scale to 600 million devices. CDIL started making silicon chips and devices in 1964 in collaboration with Continental Device Corp. of Hawthorne, California, which was later called Teledyne Semiconductor Co.
CDIL’s general manager Prithvideep Singh said that CDIL spent R&D efforts pursuing silicon carbide since it was an emerging technology. Silicon carbide allows for much-improved efficiencies and power-handling capabilities, especially in high-power charging applications and battery management systems, which can therefore be scaled to make auto-grade devices for local as well as global markets. Till 2015, it exported 70% of what it made in India to countries like the US, the UK, Germany, China, Hong Kong, Japan, South Korea, South Africa and Egypt.
However, due to the rising local production of electronics since 2016, CDIL’s share of local consumption has risen to about 65% of what it produces today. Chief operating officer Pankaj Gulati said that CDIL had created the only facility in the country that does dicing or ultra-high precision cutting of semiconductor wafers and is catering to inquiries solely from the US, Europe and China. CDIL also signed a MoU with the Semi-Conductor Laboratory (SCL), a research institute in Mohali under MeitY, undertaking research and development in the field of semiconductor technology.
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