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Re:Led by Tesla, EVs drive chip industry's shift beyond silicon by DoingIsLearning on Monday September 06, 2021 @06:19AM (#28432222)
Silicon Carbide is extensively used in Power Electronics. It's just that there is a very small group of people that are having to deal with kilovolts on a daily basis, so I suppose it is not perhaps widely known.
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Re:Led by Tesla, EVs drive chip industry's shift beyond silicon by dtgriscom on Monday September 06, 2021 @07:58AM (#28432823)
For some strange reason, my high school had a subscription to the EPRI journal [1]. For this budding nerd, reading about SCRs the size of hockey pucks, with optical fiber triggering, was quite entertaining.

[1]: https://eprijournal.com/

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