EPC Announces Strategic GaN Technology Licensing and Second Sourcing Agreement With Renesas

EL SEGUNDO, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Feb 13, 2026--

Efficient Power Conversion (EPC), the world leader in enhancement-mode gallium nitride (eGaN®) power devices, today announced a comprehensive licensing agreement with Renesas Electronics Corporation, a premier global supplier of advanced semiconductor solutions and high-voltage GaN transistors.

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Under the agreement, Renesas will gain access to EPC’s proven low-voltage eGaN technology and its established supply-chain ecosystem, accelerating the adoption of high-performance GaN solutions across a broad range of markets. EPC and Renesas will collaborate over the next year to establish internal wafer fabrication capabilities for these products. In addition, Renesas will second-source several of EPC’s popular GaN devices that are already in mass production, enhancing supply-chain resilience for customers.

As power electronics designers push for higher efficiency, greater power density, and lower carbon footprints, the physical limits of silicon increasingly constrain performance and miniaturization. Compared with silicon, GaN transistors offer higher efficiency, faster switching speeds, and significantly smaller form factors. These advantages are reshaping power conversion architectures across applications ranging from consumer electronics to AI data centers. This alliance expands customer access to GaN technology while providing increased supply assurance through qualified second sourcing.

“Together, EPC and Renesas are forming a global alliance to deliver state-of-the-art power efficiency - cutting costs in AI data centers and enhancing autonomous systems. This is an exciting moment for our industry and our company,” said Alex Lidow, CEO of EPC.

Renesas, a multi-billion-dollar semiconductor company with global sales, marketing, and manufacturing capabilities, recently completed its acquisition of Transphorm to strengthen its high-voltage GaN portfolio. Its GaN technology excels in applications such as AC-DC power supplies, EV chargers, solar inverters, and industrial motor drives, delivering high reliability even in harsh operating environments. The addition of EPC’s low-voltage eGaN expertise allows Renesas to offer one of the industry’s most comprehensive GaN power portfolios, spanning low- to high-voltage applications and further accelerating the GaN revolution.

“Expanding our business into low‑voltage GaN allows us to serve the fastest‑growing power segments,” said Rohan Samsi, VP, GaN Business Division at Renesas. “This agreement with EPC complements our established high-voltage 650V+ portfolio and enables us to capitalize on high-volume markets such as AI power architectures from 48V down to 12V and 1V, as well as client computing and battery-operated applications.”

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EPC is the leader in enhancement mode gallium nitride (eGaN®) based power management. eGaN FETs and integrated circuits provide performance many times greater than the best silicon power MOSFETs in applications such as DC-DC converters, remote sensing technology (lidar), motor drives for eMobility, robotics, and drones, and low-cost satellites.

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EPC Announces Strategic GaN Technology Licensing and Second Sourcing Agreement With Renesas

An arbitrator determined the NFL Players Association violated the Collective Bargaining Agreement with the NFL by distributing annual “team report cards” and ordered the union to stop making public any future reports. The NFL informed teams of the decision on Friday.

“We are pleased with the decision from the arbitrator, upholding the parties’ collective bargaining agreement and prohibiting the NFLPA from disparaging our clubs and individuals through ‘report cards’ allegedly based on data and methodologies that it has steadfastly refused to disclose,” NFL spokesman Brian McCarthy said in a statement. “We remain committed to working in partnership with the NFLPA and an independent survey company to develop and administer a scientifically valid survey to solicit accurate and reliable player feedback as the parties agreed in the CBA.”

In a memo sent to the 32 teams, NFL attorneys said the NFLPA’s witness and counsel at a hearing characterized the report cards as “union speech” and admitted that: the union “cherry-picked” topics and player responses to include or not in the report cards; players had no role in drafting the commentary; the union selected which anonymous player quotes to include or exclude and the union determined the weight to give each topic and the resulting impact on the alphabetical grades.

“The arbitrator did not find that the union’s independent survey necessarily conflicts with its obligation to conduct a joint specific survey of players’ opinions regarding the adequacy of medical care under the CBA,” the league said in its memo to teams. “Therefore, the Management Council will continue to work with the NFLPA to design and conduct such a survey in the coming seasons."

The union later issued a statement saying its efforts aren't going away and that it will continue to ensure players are being heard.

“The ruling upholds our right to survey players and share the results with players and clubs,” the union said in its statement. “While we strongly disagree with the restriction on making those results public, that limitation does not stop the program or its impact. Players will continue to receive the results, and teams will continue to hear directly from their locker rooms.

“Importantly, the arbitrator rejected the NFL’s characterization of the process, finding the Team Report Cards to be fair, balanced, and increasingly positive over time. Our methodology is sound.”

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