China's New Chip Material Just Ended Silicon's 70-Year Reign!
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Innoscience is replacing silicon with gallium nitride (GaN), and Nvidia, Google, STMicroelectronics, and onsemi are all lining up to buy. Founded by a former NASA rocket-fuel scientist, this company now controls ~30% of the global GaN power chip market and is the only China-based supplier approved for Nvidia's new 800-volt AI data center architecture. Silicon has run the world for 70 years, but it's hit a hard physical ceiling. GaN handles higher voltages, runs hotter, and switches far faster while wasting less energy as heat, which is exactly what AI data centers need now that legacy 48V systems waste more than 45% of their power just removing heat. In this video, I break down how Innoscience grows GaN on standard 8-inch silicon wafers to undercut rivals by nearly 50%, why its full-link all-GaN solution won a supplier award from Nvidia at GTC 2026, and the patent and geopolitical risks that could still derail it. 📌 KEY FACTS - Innoscience founded Dec 2015 by Luo Weiwei, ex-NASA Mars
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