The emerging trend of vehicles going electrical and adopting ever-more automotive electronics has not only brought new growth opportunities for the entire automotive industry, but also enabled semiconductor makers to use more of their solutions to solve the resulting technical problems. Texas Instruments (TI), for instance, has recently launched two solid-state relay chips to improve power isolation in EVs.

Effective investor relations management can help you achieve different capital market goals, including attracting high-quality long-term investors, enabling a premium valuation, allowing a stable shareholding structure, and reducing funding costs. To ensure effective two-way communication with investors and achieve desired capital market goals, you should consider a lot of Dos and Don’ts when establishing external communication policies. This article discusses the practices to be avoided in order to accumulate long-term credibility in the capital market and investors’ confidence in the quality of your management team. After all, “trust” is the most basic element for investors to support your company for the long term.

One month after Tesla recalled more than 120,000 units of its Model 3 in China, allegedly due to defects in rear motor inverters, the real causes of the defects remain unclear. As Tesla is the first carmaker to use silicon carbide (SiC) metal-oxide-semiconductor field-effect transistors (MOSFETs) in commercial cars, the recall has sparked debates about the reliability of SiC – the third-generation semiconductor material that is gaining favor.

LED driver IC design house Macroblock expects to post a double-digit sequential revenue increase with high gross margin in the second quarter of 2022, driven by robust demand for high-end niche-market applications.