Vertical Semiconductor

Vertical Semiconductor is an MIT spinout developing next-generation vertical Gallium Nitride (GaN) power devices for AI data centers and grid infrastructure. Built on a decade of research from MIT's Palacios Group, its vertical GaN transistors push energy conversion closer to the chip with less power loss and heat, targeting high-voltage applications from 100V to over 2kV. The company claims up to 30% higher efficiency, a 50% smaller power footprint, and 10% lower total cost of ownership versus silicon, and has demonstrated its platform on 8-inch wafers using standard silicon CMOS manufacturing. It is a hardware/deep-tech power-electronics company with no public API, developer portal, SDK, or OpenAPI surface. Backed by Playground Global.

Vertical Semiconductor is profiled on the APIs.io network. Tagged areas include Company, Compute, Semiconductors, Power Electronics, and Gallium Nitride.

Vertical Semiconductor’s developer surface includes engineering blog and 3 more developer resources.

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5.5/100 minimal ▬ flat Agent 0/100 human only Full breakdown ↓
scored 2026-08-20 · rubric v0.12.0
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CompanyComputeSemiconductorsPower ElectronicsGallium NitrideData-CenterGrid InfrastructureHardwareAI Infrastructure

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scored 2026-08-20 · rubric v0.12.0
Composite quality — 5.5/100 · minimal
Contract Quality 0.0 / 21
Developer Ergonomics 0.4 / 17
Access Clarity 1.8 / 17
Operational Transparency 0.0 / 11
Contract Governance 0.0 / 10
Discoverability 4.3 / 9
Regulatory Posture 0.8 / 15
Agent readiness — 0/100 · human only
Machine-Readable Contract 0 / 18
Agentic Access Contract 0 / 10
Documented Reversibility 0 / 6
MCP Server 0 / 12
Machine-Readable Auth 0 / 10
Idempotency 0 / 9
Stable Error Semantics 0 / 8
Request/Response Examples 0 / 7
Rate-Limit Signaling 0 / 7
Typed Event Surface 0 / 6
Agent Skills 0 / 5
Well-Known Catalog 0 / 4
Consent & Bot Identity 0 / 3
A2A Agent Card 0 / 8
Dry-Run / Simulate Mode 0 / 4
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Resources

Commercial 1

Pricing, plans, and the legal terms of use

PrivacyPolicy
PrivacyPolicy

Company 3

The organization behind the API

Website
Website
 Blog
Blog
 LinkedIn
LinkedIn

Source (apis.yml)

apis.yml Raw ↑ 
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name: Vertical Semiconductor
description: Vertical Semiconductor is an MIT spinout developing next-generation vertical Gallium Nitride (GaN) power devices
  for AI data centers and grid infrastructure. Built on a decade of research from MIT's Palacios Group, its vertical GaN transistors
  push energy conversion closer to the chip with less power loss and heat, targeting high-voltage applications from 100V to
  over 2kV. The company claims up to 30% higher efficiency, a 50% smaller power footprint, and 10% lower total cost of ownership
  versus silicon, and has demonstrated its platform on 8-inch wafers using standard silicon CMOS manufacturing. It is a hardware/deep-tech
  power-electronics company with no public API, developer portal, SDK, or OpenAPI surface. Backed by Playground Global.
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- Data-Center
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- AI Infrastructure
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  email: kin@apievangelist.com
- FN: APIs.json
  email: info@apis.io
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- type: Blog
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- type: PrivacyPolicy
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