Cambridge, UK – September 2025. QPT, the Cambridge-based power electronics company pioneering high-frequency GaN motor drives, has once again been recognised at the prestigious Elektra Awards, shortlisted as a finalist in both The Futurist Award and Start-up of the Year. This marks the fourth consecutive year QPT has been selected as a finalist in multiple categories.
QPT’s breakthrough technology, the qIPM (Intelligent Power Module), enables the world’s first 1 MHz sine-wave motor drives. By integrating patented innovations in packaging, sensing, filtering, and control, qIPM overcomes the historic barriers that have limited GaN transistors in high-power applications. The result is a step-change in system performance:
1MHz frequency enables small, cheap sine wave and EM output filters that improve system performance whilst reducing complexity and cost.
Up to 10% efficiency gains across motor-driven systems.
80% reduction in switching losses compared to conventional solutions.
20× smaller, lighter drives, enabling fully integrated motor-drive designs.
Pure sine wave output enables quieter, smoother motors and reduces system costs by removing expensive screened cables and lowering maintenance requirements.
Enhances precision, dynamically removes torque cogging and ripple, and provides high-fidelity sensing across the whole system without the need for expensive external senors or encoders.
With electric motors consuming nearly half of the world’s electricity, the adoption of GaN-based sine wave motor drives has the potential to reduce global electricity demand by up to 5%, the environmental equivilant of removing of every plane in the sky.
James Cannings, Executive Chairman of QPT, said:
““Being recognised once again at the Elektra Awards is a huge honour for our team. The last year has seen us achieve major technical milestones required for the power electronics industry to make the paridigm shift into the high-frequency domain that GaN enables. These awards highlight how critical it is to unlock GaN’s full potential in high-power applications, where the system-level benefits go far beyond efficiency – enabling quieter, smaller, and more reliable electric motor systems that save costs and reduce carbon emissions.””
Geoff Haynes, QPT Non-Executive Director and Co-founder of GaN Systems (acquired by Infineon) added:
““When we founded GaN Systems back in 2007, we had a vision for what could be achieved with GaN transistors if the packaging enabled them to be used at their full potential. What QPT has achieved with its qIPM architecture is a realisation of that vision. By solving the thermal. electrical and electro-magnetic challenges of MHz-class switching, QPT is redefining what motor drives can do. It’s a true step change in power electronics, and I’m delighted to see the team recognised on this stage.””
The Elektra Awards winners will be announced on Tuesday 9 December 2025 at Hilton Bankside, London.
About QPT
Founded in Cambridge in 2019, QPT is an IP-led power electronics company pioneering high-frequency GaN motor drives. Its qIPM integrates patented packaging (qAttach), ultra-fast gate drivers (qDrive), advanced sensing (qSense), real-time control (qControl), and compact sine-wave filtering (qFilter). QPT operates a fabless model, licensing its IP and supplying ASICs to global semiconductor and motor drive partners.
For more information, visit www.q-p-t.com.