Technical Features

November 2013

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Figure 1: Ever-increasing server rack power consumption

The Future of Powering AI: Redefining Power Flow from Grid-to-Core in Data Centers

Carl Smith, Global Applications Manager Data Center, Infineon Technologies AG

A recent tweet[1] by Sam Altman, the CEO of OpenAI, suggested that being polite in your chats to ChatGPT costs the company tens of millions of dollars due to the additional computational load to process unnecessary words such as “please” and “thank you”. While this set off a range of opinions on the

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Date:

08/30/2025

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Figure 1. A simple Zener regulator circuit

High-performance resistors in custom power supplies

Phil Ebbert, Riedon

The subject of power supplies is potentially very broad and the application of resistors in power supplies is quite diverse. Here we will focus on power supply units (PSUs) designed for use in electronic appliances that nominally require fixed DC outputs ranging from just a few volts up to a few kV. Whether

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Date:

11/19/2013

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Figure 1: I-V Characteristics of Normally Off GIT GaN and Conventional Normally On GaN

Normally-Off and Current Collapse Free by Unique GIT Technology Realize Commercialization of GaN Transistor

Howard Sin, Panasonic

For more than thirty-five years, the power MOSFET dominated the power management systems due to its constant technological evolution from its device structure to its applications to circuit topologies. However, at the dawn of the new millennium, power MOSFET reached its theoretical limitations that it became un

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Date:

11/14/2013

Power Mgmt. in Health Care Applications

Frederik Dostal, Analog Devices

Different health care applications require different power management solutions. From a power management view, health care is a very interesting market. Though design cycles within health care are quite long, a high level of innovation is fueling the need for new health care electronics. These do not only replac

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Date:

11/05/2013