This is the 2019 IHS Markit report on the global market for Silicon Carbide and Gallium Nitride power semiconductors. It was compiled over a five-month period by conducting over 40 interviews with power semiconductor manufacturers and companies working in the featured sectors, as well as suppliers of wafers and production equipment.
The Analyst Team

Richard Eden
Principal Research Analyst, Power Semiconductors
Richard Eden is a power semiconductor market analyst whose focus includes the Power Discrete & Module Market Tracker, the Power Semiconductor Market Share Database, and the SiC & GaN Power Semiconductors Report within the power semiconductor intelligence service. He also contributes to other semiconductor reports.
Richard joined Informa (now Omdia) in 2019 after it acquired IHS Markit Technology. He started working on power semiconductor market research in 2010 at IMS Research, later bought by IHS Markit. Prior to this, Richard spent 5 years in electronics marketing management at RS Components and 15 years in various product management and sales roles at ROHM Electronics (now ROHM Semiconductor). Before that, he was a design engineer that worked on high-end microwave components and subsystems at Plessey Microwave in the 1980s. Richard has a Higher National Diploma in electronic and electrical engineering from Coventry (Lanchester) Polytechnic, now Coventry University.

Kevin Anderson
Practice Leader, Power, Automotive and Industrial Semiconductors
Kevin Anderson follows the power IC market, providing reports and insights on component suppliers, market trends, and forecasts. He is responsibile for the Power IC Market Tracker, the Power Semiconductors in Automotive Report, and the Power Semiconductors in Data Centers Database and contributes to the Power Semiconductor Market Shares Database.
Kevin also leads the research team covering semiconductors in the power, automotive, industrial, sensors, and LED markets. He joined IHS Markit (now Omdia) after more than 30 years working in the semiconductor industry. His experience includes leadership roles in marketing and strategy, product definition, applications, and IC design in analog and power. He has over 20 years’ experience in the global automotive sector and has worked in the consumer, industrial, military, and mobile device markets.

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