Vicor celebrated the opening of its new, state-of-the-art power module manufacturing facility with a commemorative ribbon-cutting event on May 18 at 400 Federal Street, Andover. The new ChiP foundry provides the capacity to meet the high-volume requirements of ChiP customers and manufacture power modules for artificial intelligence, electrified vehicles, advanced communications and other high-growth markets. It is the world’s first ChiP (Converter housed in Package) fabrication facility, or “ChiP fab” which enables scalable, automated, cost-effective manufacturing of power modules in the United States.

Vicor employees and senior management will be joined by state and local government representatives.

With its new ChiP foundry, Vicor takes a major step toward realizing its vision to enable high-performance, modular power system solutions capable of satisfying demanding power requirements.

“Our new ChiP fab integrates all of the process steps necessary to manufacture high-density power modules in wafer-like panels with short cycle time and flexible capacity,” said Mike McNamara, Vicor Vice President of Operations.

The new facility comes online as Vicor celebrates 41 years of expanding its performance leadership within the global power electronics industry with U.S.-based manufacturing.

The new, vertically-integrated ChiP fab utilizes patented fabrication processes that further differentiate Vicor power modules by enabling the most power-dense and energy-efficient solutions.

Vicor ChiPs are manufactured in panels utilizing process steps analogous to semiconductor wafer fabs.

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