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SiTime Boosts GPU Utilization in AI Data Centers with Elite 2 Super-TCXO
SiTime Corporation, the Precision Timing company, announced the Elite 2 Super-TCXO® to increase GPU utilization and compute efficiency in AI data centers by delivering better time synchronization. The product targets a $1.5 billion cumulative market by 2030.
“Industry reports show GPU utilizati
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Date:
05/04/2026
KYOCERA AVX Releases Multilayer Varistors Optimized for 48V Automotive Power Supply Systems
KYOCERA AVX, a leading global manufacturer of advanced electronic components engineered to accelerate technological innovation and build a better future, added new high-temperature, automotive-grade multilayer varistors (MLVs) engineered for 48V power supply systems to its proven TransGuard® VT Series, wh
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05/04/2026
STMicroelectronics Reveals VIPerGaN 100W Converters for Energy-Efficient Appliances
STMicroelectronics has introduced two 100-Watt VIPerGaN high-voltage converters, extending wide-bandgap energy savings throughout domestic appliances, building and home automation, smart lighting, and consumer products including televisions and device chargers.
The new converters include the VIPerGaN100W, with 3.5A
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05/04/2026
ROHM Launches an Ultra-Compact Wireless Power Chipset for Wearables
ROHM Semiconductor today announced it has developed a wireless power supply IC chipset consisting of the receiver - ML7670 - and transmitter - ML7671 - compatible with Near Field Communication (NFC) technology for compact wearables such as smart rings and smart bands as
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Date:
05/01/2026
Jason Lomberg, North American Editor, PSD
Welcome to the May issue!
April’s issue dealt with the immediate aftermath of APEC, and this month I’d like to get into some specifics.
Amongst a plethora of new developments, two specific themes stood out – the decline of EVs and the ascension of artificial intelligence.
Most companies and OEMs stil
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Date:
05/01/2026
Ally Winning, European Editor, PSD
Welcome to the May edition of Power Systems Design Europe. Even before the AI boom, the roll out of data centres were happening extremely quickly. Data centres enable some of the most essential services we use today, for example hosting web sites, and running IoT applications. That importance will only grow in
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Date:
05/01/2026
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Figure 1: An example using the Saf-D-Grid Max connector demonstrates that, at constant ambient temperature, connector temperature increases as applied current increases
AI acceleration and high-performance computing (HPC) architectures are fueling an unprecedented rise in data center demand. Goldman Sachs expects global data center power demand to surge +160% by 2030, and AI server racks in 2027 will require 50x more power than cloud equivalents five years ago.
To meet this
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Date:
05/01/2026
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Figure 1: AI scaling laws show that larger models trained with exponentially more compute consistently achieve better performance
The rapid growth of AI is driven by compute deployment at an unprecedented pace. AI scaling laws show that larger models trained with exponentially more compute consistently achieve better performance. For leading technology companies, the implication is clear: the most effective way to improve AI systems is
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Date:
05/01/2026
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Figure 1: TRIA SM2S-QCS6490 - Compute Module by Tria
Developers and users of the embedded systems that control industrial and other real-time processes can use the cloud to embrace AI capabilities. But there is a growing need for local AI processing to overcome problems associated with the need for a persistent and unbroken connection to the cloud servers. Numerous se
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Date:
05/01/2026
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Figure 1: Raspberry Pi Pico Thermal Demo in GPStudio
The artificial intelligence revolution has, until now, been overwhelmingly digital. Large language models write code and compose text. Image generators produce photorealistic art on command. Recommendation engines decide what billions of people watch, read, and buy. These are remarkable achievements, but they sh
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Date:
05/01/2026
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Figure 1: The Knowledge Ingestion Pipeline: How LLMs and VLMs absorb expertise from human video demonstrations and technical documents to generate robot task policies
Agentic AI provides the “brain” for autonomous decision-making, while cobots provide the physical presence—with the sensors, force limitations, and safety-by-design required to work alongside humans in complex operational environments. Together, they form a more capable system than either technology al
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Date:
05/01/2026
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Figure 1: 48V data centre power delivery to rack
As AI workloads intensify, GPUs in server environments are driving unprecedented power demands - prompting a shift toward an 800V power delivery architecture at the rack level. This elevated voltage introduces new challenges for system protection and monitoring, particularly during live tray insertion and re
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Date:
05/01/2026
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In December 2025, the UK's National Energy System Operator (NESO) announced the results of its major overhaul of the UK’s grid connection process, removing speculative schemes and introducing a readiness-based system. While this affects all electricity projects, it raises the bar for data centres, which mus
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Date:
05/01/2026
Kevin Parmenter, Pins Out Engineering, for TSC America, Inc.
Artificial intelligence (AI) workloads are driving rapid growth in data center power density and energy consumption. Hyperscale and edge facilities supporting AI training and inference are increasingly constrained by power availability and thermal limits. As deployment accelerates, sustainable power delivery ha
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Date:
05/01/2026
Jason Lomberg, North American Editor, PSD
A new report suggests that a significant portion of web traffic is courtesy of AI, and in the future, a majority of online activity could be artificial in nature. But this only hints at the larger (and potentially catastrophic) problem – using AI to scrape and harness the dark web.
According to TollBit,
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Date:
05/01/2026
Ally Winning, European Editor, PSD
Lithium batteries are essential to our lifestyles. From powering wireless earbuds, to providing the energy for EVs, almost all of our consumer goods rely on them for energy storage. That reliance has two drawback – the first is that in these days of throwaway goods, a lot of batteries are consigned to the du
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Date:
05/01/2026
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Figure 1: An ADP1047 PFC stage with a downstream ADP1046 dc-to-dc converter
Voltage regulators usually serve the purpose of generating a constant regulated output voltage. By means of control loops, a stable and precise supply is generated from an unregulated input voltage. What purpose, then, does dynamic voltage scaling (DVS) serve?
Dynamic voltage scaling means that the outpu
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Date:
05/01/2026
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