In microelectronics world, the power devices industry is very specific as there are few standards and represents a few % of the mainstream semiconductor business (about 10%).
However, this industry is also charac-terized by a high level of innovations and new advanced technologies like deep etching, the use of SOI, SiC or thin wafers to answer power devices technical chal-lenges.
This report gives a complete analy-sis of the markets and new technical trends for the power devices industry.Power devices have many applications.
The most common are industry, automotive, trac-tion motor, high voltage direct current, home applications and wind power.The power devices market was about $16 billion in 2003 and $20 billion in 2004 (fig.
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In 2007, we forecast that the market will grow to $25 billion.
Over it, SiC power de-vices was only $12M in 2004 but is fore-casted to reach more than $100M by 2009.IPMs are 45 to 50% of the total market and the most common discretes are power MOSFETs (35% of the discretes market) and BJTs (27% of the total discretes mar-ket).
In 2004, the total power devices wafer con-sumption was 13.2 millions x 6” wafers (4” and 6” wafers are mostly used and the wafer consumption for power devices is 7.1% of total IC wafer consumption).
As a general rule, the power devices industry is about 7 to 10% of the total semiconductor industry