Albert Kumar is the founder and CEO of Carbide Radio, a semiconductor company building novel silicon carbide radio frequency microchips with unprecedented performance. Prior to Carbide Radio, Kumar held various semiconductor industry roles including technology development, chip design, and sales at companies like Qualcomm and Xfab. He has a B.S. in electrical engineering from UCLA.
Imagine a semiconductor that’s hard like diamond, works at temperatures hotter than Venus, and can form complementary metal–oxide–semiconductor transistors just like the ones in silicon computer chips. That’s silicon carbide. Carbide Radio is pioneering a silicon carbide technology that will power the RF front-ends of cellular networks—a multi-billion-dollar industry.