Powering AI

    June 2025
    Alpha and Omega Semiconductor Introduces 25V MOSFET in DFN3.3x3.3 Source-Down Packaging that Meets Power Demands in AI Servers

    Alpha and Omega Semiconductor Introduces 25V MOSFET in DFN3.3x3.3 Source-Down Packaging that Meets Power Demands in AI Servers

    ­Alpha and Omega Semiconductor Limited (AOS), a designer, developer, and global supplier of a broad range of discrete power devices, wide band gap power devices, power management ICs, and modules, today introduced its AONK40202 25V MOSFET in state-of-the-art DFN3.3x3.3 Source-Down packaging technology.  De
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    Date:
    06/18/2025
    KROHNE Dedicates Production Capacity and Establishes U.S. Center of Excellence to Support Explosive Growth in AI-Driven Data Centers

    KROHNE Dedicates Production Capacity and Establishes U.S. Center of Excellence to Support Explosive Growth in AI-Driven Data Centers

    ­KROHNE, a global leader in the design and manufacture of high-quality magnetic flow meters (magmeters), announces a major commitment to the fast-growing data center sector by dedicating a significant portion of its annual production capacity to meet escalating demand. This strategic move is designed to support th
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    Date:
    06/18/2025
    SEGGER’s J-Trace PRO Offers Turnkey Instruction Tracing for ST’s High-Performance STM32N6 Microcontrollers with AI Acceleration

    SEGGER’s J-Trace PRO Offers Turnkey Instruction Tracing for ST’s High-Performance STM32N6 Microcontrollers with AI Acceleration

    ­The STM32N6 series contains an embedded proprietary neural processing unit, multiple graphics accelerators, a computer vision pipeline, and a multimedia encoder and decoder. J-Trace PRO is SEGGER’s streaming trace probe that is capable of capturing full traces over long periods, allowing for recording of hard-t
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    Date:
    06/18/2025
    PSDcast - Data Center Power Demands

    Harry Soin from Advanced Energy

    ­We’ve recently witnessed an exponential increase in data center power demands, driven largely by the equally monumental rise in generative AI. By one estimate, generative AI could add anywhere from $2.6 to 4.4 trillion dollars in global economic benefits annually, and so it’s no surprise that data center po
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    Date:
    06/18/2025
    Marvell Develops Industry’s First 2nm Custom SRAM for Next-Generation AI Infrastructure Silicon

    Will Chu, senior vice president of Custom Cloud Solutions at Marvell

    ­Marvell Technology, Inc., a leader in data infrastructure semiconductor solutions, expanded its custom technology platform with the launch of the industry’s first 2nm custom Static Random Access Memory (SRAM), designed to boost the performance of custom XPUs and devices powering cloud data centers and AI
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    Date:
    06/17/2025
    Renesas Brings USB-C Rev. 2.4 Support to New Ultra-Low-Power RA2L2 Microcontroller Group

    Renesas Brings USB-C Rev. 2.4 Support to New Ultra-Low-Power RA2L2 Microcontroller Group

    ­Renesas Electronics Corporation, a premier supplier of advanced semiconductor solutions, today introduced the RA2L2 microcontroller (MCU) group with ultra-low power consumption and the industry’s first support for the new UCB-C Revision 2.4 standard. Based on a 48-MHz Arm Cortex M23 processor, th
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    Date:
    06/10/2025
    ROHM Develops Breakthrough AI-Equipped MCU

    ROHM Develops Breakthrough AI-Equipped MCU

    ­ROHM Semiconductor announced they have developed AI-equipped MCUs (AI MCUs) – ML63Q253x-NNNxx / ML63Q255x-NNNxx – that enable fault prediction and degradation forecasting using sensing data in a wide range of devices, including industrial equipment such as motors. These MCUs are the
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    Date:
    06/05/2025
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