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Zaher Baidas, Senior Vice President and General Manager, Power, with Renesas Electronics
We’re starting to move past the initial stage of AI development, from the initial training phase to what’s called AI inference, emphasizing continuous, real-time application processing.
Google calls it the "doing" part of artificial intelligence. And since we’ve entered the inference phase, AI
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Date:
09/17/2026
Littelfuse Expands Omnipolar TMR Switch Family with Leaded TO-92 Package Option
Littelfuse, Inc. announced the TX00AT314AMA Omnipolar TMR Switch Sensor, the latest addition to the TX00 TMR Switch family. The TX00AT314AMA delivers the same proven performance as the SOT-23-3 TX00AS314TRA—high sensitivity, ultra-low 1.5 µA power consumption, omnipolar detection, and up to 1 kHz switching sp
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Date:
09/11/2026
Lithium Inside. Not a Lithium Battery
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1. Why Hybrid Supercapacitors Should Not Simply Be Treated as “Lithium Batteries”
In AI servers, industrial UPS systems, telecom base stations, smart meters, industrial controllers, and IoT devices, not every energy-storage requirement needs to be handled by a battery.
When equipment need
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Date:
09/11/2026
Figure 1: Functional block diagram of EZ-PD™ PMG1-S4, showing the integrated USB-C PD, processing, gate driver, sensing, protection, and interface resources
1. Why bidirectional USB-C changes the design problem
The drawer full of obsolete chargers has become a recognizable symbol of fragmented power interfaces. The European Commission estimates that discarded and unused chargers account for approximately 11,000 tons of electronic waste annually. Its common-charger
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Date:
09/10/2026
Danielle Spalding, SVP of Corporate & External Affairs at Cirba Solutions
Lithium-ion batteries have gone from commonplace to ubiquitous – according to a report by Cirba Solutions, a full 99% of respondents reported using lithium battery-powered items daily.
The problem comes with the batteries’ disposal – or lack thereof. Less than 50% of respondents recycle their lithium-ion batter
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Date:
09/03/2026
Jason Lomberg, North American Editor, PSD
In a move that’ll probably surprise no one, Zoom has begun offering a dedicated AI receptionist service within their business telephone system. And though changes like this seem inevitable, it’s also a potentially troubling sign of the times.
Let’s face it – automation is nothing new. Ever since the
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Date:
09/01/2026
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