Navitas Announces Automotive Qualification of High-Power GaNSafe™ ICs

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Navitas Semiconductor (NVTS) has achieved a significant milestone with its high-power GaNSafe™ ICs receiving both AEC-Q100 and AEC-Q101 automotive qualifications. The company's 4th generation GaNSafe family integrates advanced features including 350ns max latency short-circuit protection, 2kV ESD protection, and programmable slew rate control, all managed through a simplified 4-pin interface.

The qualification validates both discrete power FET stage and IC solution compliance with automotive standards. Navitas' comprehensive reliability report, analyzing over 7 years of production data, demonstrates field failure rates approaching 100 parts per billion (ppb) across more than 250 million shipped units.

In March 2025, Navitas also introduced the first 650V Bi-Directional GaNFast ICs with IsoFast Drivers, enabling single-stage topologies in AC-DC and AC-AC conversion. This innovation promises up to 10% cost savings, 20% energy savings, and 50% size reductions in EV on-board chargers.

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• Achieved critical automotive qualifications (AEC-Q100 and AEC-Q101) for GaNSafe ICs
• Demonstrated exceptional reliability with field failure rate near 100 ppb across 250M+ units
• New 650V Bi-Directional GaNFast ICs enable significant cost and efficiency improvements
• Already secured early adoption from leading EV manufacturer

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• None.

High-power GaNSafe ICs bring production-ready performance to EVs, unlocking unprecedented power density and efficiency for on-board chargers (OBCs) and HV-LV DC-DC converters applications

TORRANCE, Calif., April 15, 2025 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Navitas Semiconductor (Nasdaq: NVTS), the only pure-play, next-generation power semiconductor company and industry leader in gallium nitride (GaN) power ICs and silicon carbide (SiC) technology, has announced its high-power GaNSafe™ ICs achieve automotive qualification for both AEC-Q100 and AEC-Q101, showcasing GaN’s next inflection into the automotive market.

Navitas high-power GaNSafe 4^th generation family integrates control, drive, sensing, and critical protection features that enable unprecedented reliability and robustness in high-power applications. It is the world’s safest GaN with short-circuit protection (350ns max latency), 2kV ESD protection on all pins, elimination of negative gate drive, and programmable slew rate control. All these features are controlled with 4-pins, allowing the package to be treated like a discrete GaN FET, requiring no V_CC pin.

The Automotive Electronics Council (AEC) lists various qualifications focused on failure mechanism-based stress tests for packaged integrated circuits (AEC-Q100) and discrete semiconductors (AEC-Q101) used in automotive applications. Navitas’ GaNSafe™ has been qualified to both standards to ensure that both the discrete power FET stage and the combined IC solution meet these stringent specifications.

To support the qualification, Navitas has created a comprehensive reliability report that analyzes over 7 years of production and field data. It demonstrates their track record, alongside generational and family improvements in robustness and reliability, establishing GaN power ICs as highly reliable and automotive-ready. This reliability report is available to qualified customers.

Navitas’ latest GaN reliability report highlights seven years of production with accelerating volumes exceeding 250 million units, while driving field failure rate towards an impressive 100 parts per billion (ppb).

Additionally in March 2025, Navitas unveiled the world’s first production released 650V Bi-Directional GaNFast ICs with IsoFast Drivers, creating a paradigm shift in power to enable the transition from two-stage to single-stage topologies to further enhance efficiency, power density, and performance in AC-DC and AC-AC conversion. This would allow next-generation single-stage OBCs to provide bi-directional charging in a high-efficiency, extremely compact solution – which eliminates bulky capacitors and input inductors.

A leading EV and solar micro-inverter manufacturer have already begun their implementation of single-stage BDS converters to improve efficiency, size, and cost in their systems. GaNFast-enabled single-stage BDS converters achieve up to 10% cost savings, 20% energy savings, and up to 50% size reductions.

“Our latest reliability report is the culmination of years of innovation and field experience,” said Gene Sheridan, CEO and co-founder of Navitas. “With more than 250 million units shipped, over 2 trillion field devices hours and a cumulative field failure rate that is now approaching 100 parts per billion, we’re leading the charge in making GaN the go-to technology for EV power systems.”

Please contact info@navitassemi.com for further information or visit www.navitassemi.com.

About Navitas
Navitas Semiconductor (Nasdaq: NVTS) is the only pure-play, next-generation power-semiconductor company, celebrating 10 years of power innovation founded in 2014. GaNFast™ power ICs integrate gallium nitride (GaN) power and drive, with control, sensing, and protection to enable faster charging, higher power density, and greater energy savings. Complementary GeneSiC™ power devices are optimized high-power, high-voltage, and high-reliability silicon carbide (SiC) solutions. Focus markets include AI data centers, EV, solar, energy storage, home appliance / industrial, mobile, and consumer. Over 300 Navitas patents are issued or pending, with the industry’s first and only 20-year GaNFast warranty. Navitas was the world’s first semiconductor company to be CarbonNeutral®-certified.

Navitas Semiconductor, GaNFast, GaNSense, GeneSiC, and the Navitas logo are trademarks or registered trademarks of Navitas Semiconductor Limited and affiliates. All other brands, product names, and marks are or may be trademarks or registered trademarks used to identify products or services of their respective owners.

Contact Information
Llew Vaughan-Edmunds, Sr Director, Product Management & Marketing
info@navitassemi.com

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FAQ

What automotive qualifications did Navitas (NVTS) GaNSafe ICs achieve in April 2025?

Navitas GaNSafe ICs achieved both AEC-Q100 and AEC-Q101 automotive qualifications, validating their reliability for automotive applications.

How many GaN units has NVTS shipped and what is their failure rate?

Navitas has shipped over 250 million units with a field failure rate approaching 100 parts per billion (ppb).

What are the key features of Navitas' 4th generation GaNSafe ICs?

Key features include 350ns max latency short-circuit protection, 2kV ESD protection on all pins, no negative gate drive, and programmable slew rate control, all managed through 4 pins.

What efficiency improvements does NVTS's new 650V Bi-Directional GaNFast IC offer?

The technology enables up to 10% cost savings, 20% energy savings, and 50% size reductions in single-stage converter applications.