About / Our Story

Our story

In 2024, the MENA region had no silicon carbide wafer line and no power chip fab, and a region that moves global capital markets was importing every power device it consumed. We saw a generational opportunity in that gap.

The two years that followed were spent between Taipei and Abu Dhabi, inspecting equipment in Taiwanese warehouses, explaining silicon carbide to government officials from first principles, and working through negotiations that stalled and restarted more than once.

Everyone agreed the region needed this industry, but no one had built it before and there was no playbook to follow. Today Alpha Power is a holding company with ventures in development across Asia and the Middle East, an EPC consortium in place and production equipment secured, all of it built by the people on this site.

Alpha Power Semiconductor Holding Limited seal, established 2025
Two engineers in cleanroom suits inspecting a wafer
Engineers in cleanroom suits servicing a process tool
Crated semiconductor production equipment in a warehouse

About / Milestones

Milestones

2024

The opportunity is identified. Two years of groundwork begin between Taipei and Abu Dhabi.

2025

Alpha Power Semiconductor Holding Limited is established in the Abu Dhabi Global Market. The EPC consortium and equipment partnerships are assembled.

2026

Two silicon carbide fab ventures in development across Asia and the Middle East. Advanced packaging and InP substrates enter the pipeline.

About / Governance

Governance

The holding company

Alpha Power Semiconductor Holding Limited is incorporated in the Abu Dhabi Global Market (ADGM) under Licence No. 31674, and operates under the ADGM Companies Regulations and the ADGM Data Protection Regulations 2021. It is directed by its board, and its leadership team is listed on the Team page.

The holding company sets strategy, allocates capital across the portfolio and appoints the leadership of each venture.

The ventures

Each venture is held through its own special purpose vehicle, with its own board, financing and partners. Investors commit at venture level and receive reporting on that venture through the data room.

A project management office coordinates the EPC contractors, equipment partners and the operating company for each build, so that every venture draws on the same technology platform and the same senior team.

About / Responsibility

Building more than fabs

Silicon carbide exists to cut losses: it makes power conversion in vehicles, grids and data centres markedly more efficient than traditional silicon.

Every venture builds an ecosystem around it. We train local engineers, work with universities, and create high-tech employment in each host country. See Careers.