Vishay Intertechnology, Inc. recently announced that the company's facility in Borgaro Torinese, Italy, has been awarded an R&D grant for research results for its WATT4FRED project from the European Union and the Piedmont Regional Government.
The project will focus on the development of a new family of high voltage FRED Pt diodes with advanced technologies for the automotive market, as well as industrial applications such as white goods, engine drives and air conditioning.
For Vishay and its project partners, the objective of the WATT4FRED project is to study and develop advanced technological processes to generate a new family of devices capable of supporting the latest market requirements in terms of efficiency, cost and energy consumption, while maintaining the compliance with the latest environmental policies.
New advanced manufacturing processes will be studied and developed, especially in the context of chip tuning technologies, which are fundamental to increasing the power dissipation of chips. Funding for the grant was provided through the ROP FEDER Piedmont Region 2014-2020, Axis 1 Law. I.1b.2.2- Act. I.8ii.2.3.1, PIATTAFORME TECNOLOGICHE DI FILIERA Pi.Te.F. (Supply Chain Technology Platform).
