Power Systems Design (PSD) Information to Power Your Designs

Jason Allnut, OT & Cyber SME at SimSpace

We’re now at a crossroads with AI – straddling the line between its ability to do good and its potential to do irreparable harm. And no topic exemplifies that quite like industrial security. 78% of security leaders who’ve adopted AI report high confidence in their defenses, but only 29% of organizations in

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06/18/2026

Sumida Introduces +165°C Metal Composite Power Inductors

Sumida Corporation, a global leader in inductive components and solutions, announced the availability of the MCDMCF201612/DS, a new high-temperature SMD power inductor engineered to operate reliably in environments where conventional inductors fall short. Featuring an operational temperature range of -55°C to

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06/16/2026

onsemi Introduces Industry-First Elite Pairing Studio to Simplify Power Design

The onsemi Elite Pairing Studio is an online design environment that simplifies pairing SiC MOSFETs and gate drivers for demanding power electronics applications, including AI data centers, electric vehicles, and industrial systems. By providing visibility into device‑level behavior and pairing trade‑offs, th

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Date:

06/08/2026

How 800V EV Innovations are Redefining AI Data Centers | IDTechEx Expert Analysis

How 800V EV Innovations are Redefining AI Data Centers

Matthew Fall, Technology Analyst, IDTechEx

The electric vehicle industry has, for the past decade, become the dominant application area for power electronics. Most power electronics players have enjoyed the automotive industry as their main source of revenue for years, and power electronics innovations have focused mainly on improving efficiency and pe

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06/02/2026

XpressConnect PCIe 6.0 and CXL 3.1 Retimers Address Latency and Signal‑Integrity Challenges in AI Data Centers

As AI workloads continue to scale, data center architects are increasingly constrained by limited signal reach and rising latency, which can leave valuable memory resources underutilized across large GPU clusters. These challenges are amplified as interconnect speeds increase. At 64 GT/s (giga transfers per sec

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Date:

06/02/2026

Power Integrations Unveils Space-Saving, Ultra-Slim Auxiliary PSU Reference Designs for NVIDIA Kyber 800 VDC AI Data Center

Power Integrations, the leader in high-voltage integrated circuits for energy-efficient power conversion, today introduced two new ultra-slim, compact auxiliary power supply reference designs for 800 VDC AI data centers. The single-output, 15 W design is only 30 mm by 30 mm with a 7 mm profile, while the isolated, si

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Date:

06/01/2026

Marvell Announces Availability of Industry's First 102.4 Tbps Switch Purpose-Built for AI and Cloud Data Center Infrastructure

Marvell Technology, Inc., a leader in data infrastructure semiconductor solutions, today introduced Marvell Teralynx T100, the industry’s first 102.4 Tbps switch silicon purpose-built for the AI era. Unlike legacy switching platforms designed for traditional enterprise and cloud data centers, the Teralynx T1

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Date:

06/01/2026

Jason Lomberg, North American Editor, PSD

Will Robotics and AI Enhance or Supplant Humanity?

Jason Lomberg, North American Editor, PSD

We’re less a month away from the official start of summer, and we know what that means – the kids are home from school, and they’re invading every shopping mall, movie theater, convenience store, and our houses. And maybe, just maybe, we’ll take them somewhere with blue skies, copious amounts of sa

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Date:

06/01/2026

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Figure 1: “Business model development process, experimentation, and Lean Start-up in practice” (Source: Bokur and Snihur, 2020)

Innovation through Lean AI

Crystal Chen, Product Marketing & Product Management, Infineon HiRel

National security increasingly relies on swift innovation and rapid inventory upgrades to maintain agility on a global scale. Program modernization and capability improvements are top priorities to meet urgent national security demands, with speed, innovation, and reliability driving success. Asprivate companies su

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Date:

06/01/2026

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Figure 1: LPDDR6 expands beyond mobile. Conventional LPDDR apps (phone, client, IoT, automotive, XR) extending into AI data center, Smart NIC, robotics, and high-performance laptops

LPDDR6 Bandwidth Math: What You Gain, What You Pay, What You Measure

Armando Valim, Director of AI solutions, Keysight Technologies

There is an old engineering adage that a system is only as fast as its slowest component, and AI systems are no different. As models scale, one of the first bottlenecks to surface is memory. Because of the importance of memory, Joint Electron Device Engineering Council (JEDEC) LPDDR6 is positioned as a next

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Date:

06/01/2026

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Figure 1: MLCCs and parasitic impedances cause PDN impedance responses to deviate from their target.

Ensuring SoC Power Integrity with Silicon Capacitors

Mukund Krishna, Senior Manager Product Marketing, Empower Semiconductor

In the relentless pursuit of high-performance computing, power delivery has quickly become the industry’s greatest roadblock. As artificial intelligence (AI) and high-performance computing (HPC) drive an exponential increase in current densities and transient requirements, traditional power delivery networks (P

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Date:

06/01/2026

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Figure 1: Data Center Power Distribution Architecture Evolution

Floating Ground Hot-Swap Architecture for Data Centres

Avishek Pal, and Rakesh Panguloori, Texas Instruments

The exponential growth of AI, high-performance computing (HPC), and cloud services is driving an unprecedented surge in data center power demands. Traditional 50V DC power distribution architectures, once sufficient for kilowatt-scale IT racks, are rapidly approaching physical and economic limits as AI workloads pu

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Date:

06/01/2026

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Predictive Power: Innovations for Grid Stability

Ben Sutherland, Senior Director of Sales at Power Integrations

The global energy transition is accelerating, driven by decarbonization targets, electrification of transport and industry, and the rapid deployment of renewable energy. At the same time, AI data centers are emerging as massive energy consumers, with projected power requirements reaching hundreds of megawatts pe

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Date:

06/01/2026

Jason Lomberg, North America Editor, PSD

Is it Possible to be Fully "In the Loop" with AI?

Jason Lomberg, North America Editor, PSD

Much of the agita around deploying autonomous robotics and AI systems on the modern battlefield centers around keeping humans “in the loop”. But MIT Tech Review poses an important question – can we really remain “in the loop” if we don’t fully understand the thought process of artificial intelligence? It seems sel

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Date:

06/01/2026

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