Silicon Power Corporation

Silicon Power Corporation designs, fabricates and markets a wide range of power semiconductor devices for a wide variety of pulse power and power applications. The company located in Malvern, Pennsylvania, is the oldest continuously operating semiconductor engineering and manufacturing facility in the world, dating back to the late 1920s. General Electric company operated the facility until 1994, when the present ownership transitioned from GE to Silicon Power Corporation. Today, the company produces thyristors up to 9kV and silicon diameters in 100mm and 125mm sizes. In 2003 the company introduced the Solidtron miniature thyristor product line based on the MOS controlled thyristor and Super GTO technology for low duty high voltage pulse discharge applications.