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­Securing the Right to Repair

Infineon's OPTIGA Authenticate family helps manufacturers meet green regulations

  One major part of making products more sustainable is to have them operate over a longer lifetime. As a society we have become used to throwing things away when they are broken, or even when better alternatives come along. A typical example of this type of thinking is the mobile phone, where the majority of p
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Date:
09/26/2023
­GaN Breaks the High-Power Glass Ceiling

Stephen Oliver, VP Corporate Marketing & Investor Relations at Navitas

  The marketplace adoption of GaN has come tremendously quickly. In under a decade, the wide bandgap material has gone from an expensive niche product that was difficult to design into systems, to an almost commodity product. The problem about commodity products is that they are available from many manufa
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Date:
09/19/2023
Longer Lasting Protection from Surges

Frederik Dostal, Subject Matter Expert, Power Management, Analog Devices

  A fairly recent innovation that can increase the usefulness of surge stoppers is the switching surge stopper, which is able to keep the circuit operating during longer surges.   Electrical surges can be devastating to electronics equipment. They can happen when equipment is plugged in, unplug
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Date:
09/13/2023
Examining Power Efficiency in Rack-Scale AI Systems

Ajith Jain, Global Vice President High Performance Computing Business, Vicor

  Can you explain how and why power demands are changing for today’s high performance computing (HPC) installations? Semiconductor process geometries are advancing at a rapid rate, and we are now working with loads that are designed using 7nm, all the way down to 3nm process nodes. As proce
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Date:
09/05/2023