Tech Podcast: Renesas GaN: Mature Portfolio to Support Multi-Market Applications

Uploaded February 2026 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago

In today’s podcast, we will discuss how Renesas‘ GaN offering supports the requirements of different power applications, across sectors such as AI Infrastructure, Solar OBC and DC/DC in electric vehicles. The power conversion within each of these sectors is shifting towards more power dense, efficient, modular, and intelligent power architectures, with trends toward high-voltage buses, bidirectional energy flow, and fewer conversion stages. Today’s focus will be infrastructure, renewable energy, with a discussion of how the wide-bandgap gallium nitride (GaN) semiconductor can be a key enabling technology to drive these system-level improvements.

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