Geoff West, Executive Vice President and Chief Procurement Officer of STMicroelectronics, stated:Signing an expanded supply agreement with SiCrystal will help ST obtain more 150mm (6-inch) SiC substrate wafers, promoting our production capacity of silicon carbide chips and better meeting the needs of global automotive and industrial customers. The new agreement can also balance the supply ratio inside and outside ST, strengthen our supply chain resilience, and better cope with future demand growth. ”

Dr. Robert Eckstein, President and CEO of SiCrystal, a subsidiary of Roma Group, stated:SiCrystal is a subsidiary of the ROHM Group and has many years of experience in manufacturing silicon carbide substrate wafers. I am very pleased to renew the agreement with our long-term client ST and expand our cooperation. We will continue to support our partners in expanding their silicon carbide business and continuously improve the production of 6-inch SiC substrate wafers while ensuring reliable product quality. ”

Silicon carbide power semiconductors themselves have high energy efficiency and are an important force in empowering the automotive and industrial markets to transition towards electrification in a sustainable manner. Silicon carbide can help improve the energy efficiency of power generation, distribution, and energy storage, support the transformation of transportation towards cleaner solutions, develop manufacturing processes with lower carbon emissions, create a greener energy future, and provide more reliable power for resource intensive infrastructure such as AI dedicated data centers.

Regarding Roma
ROHM is a semiconductor electronic component manufacturer founded in 1958. By establishing a global development and sales network, we provide high-quality and highly reliable IC, discrete semiconductor, and electronic component products for the automotive and industrial equipment markets, as well as numerous markets such as consumer electronics and communications. In the fields of power electronics and simulation that ROHM excels in, ROHM's advantage lies in providing optimized solutions for the overall system, including silicon carbide power components and driver ICs that fully utilize their performance, as well as peripheral components such as transistors, diodes, resistors, etc.

About SiCrystal

SiCrystal is a silicon carbide substrate manufacturing company under the ROHM Group and a leading enterprise in the global single crystal silicon carbide wafer market. SiCrystal's advanced semiconductor substrates have laid the foundation for efficient utilization of electrical energy in electric vehicles, fast charging stations, renewable energy, and various industrial applications.