5 • 6 Ratings
🗓️ 21 February 2023
⏱️ 29 minutes
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Dr Giorgia Longobardi, the co-founder and CEO of Cambridge GaN Devices, shares her experience spinning out a startup from the University of Cambridge, being a woman in STEM, developing energy-efficient microchips and why the UK government urgently needs to develop a semiconductor strategy.
Longobardi co-founded CGD, a fabless semiconductor company, in 2016. It is developing transistors that use gallium nitride (GaN) instead of silicon to power electronics, with the goal of making devices such as data centres more energy efficient. The Cambridge-headquartered company has raised more than $28m in funding.
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0:00.0 | Semiconductors as I was saying are everywhere and the moment in which you don't have them available, then the economy almost stops. |
0:16.0 | Always being open to learn, always being open to grow your network and being exposed to people |
0:23.7 | that have been there already. |
0:29.4 | I believe that the UK government has to do something for the semiconductor industry which |
0:33.8 | is not just protecting their own industries. |
0:37.2 | It's about defining a semiconductor strategy. |
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1:22.1 | Hello and welcome to the UKTN podcast, a weekly conversation with founders of some of the UK's high-growth |
1:29.2 | tech companies. Each episode, we will talk through the founder's personal journey, their vision |
1:34.1 | for their business and their views of the wider tech industry. I'm Jane Wakefield, and joining me |
1:39.8 | today is Dr. Georgia Longabardi, founder and CEO of Cambridge GAN devices. Thank you for joining me, |
1:46.6 | Georgia. Before we get into your fascinating company and the tech behind it, I just wanted to talk |
1:53.0 | a little bit about your background. And it seems to me that in some ways you had the dream STEM |
1:59.1 | career, studied engineering, a member of the Royal Academy and now |
2:03.4 | an entrepreneur. So my first question is, what have you learned from that that you would pass |
2:08.9 | as advice to other young women in an industry desperate to get more young girls involved? |
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