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    1-bit and 2-bit Dual-Supply Bus Transceivers from Toshiba Support Low-Voltage Level Shifting

    1-bit and 2-bit Dual-Supply Bus Transceivers from Toshiba Support Low-Voltage Level Shifting

    1-bit and 2-bit Dual-Supply Bus Transceivers from Toshiba Support Low-Voltage Level Shifting
    ­Toshiba Electronics Europe GmbH (“Toshiba”) expands its 74AVC series lineup of dual-supply bus transceivers with four new 1-bit products, 74AVC1T45NX, 74AVCH1T45NX, 74AVC1T45FU, and 74AVCH1T45FU, and two new 2-bit products, 74AVC2T45FK and 74AVCH2T45FK. The products can be used for bidirectional level-shifting be
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    05/08/2026
    Electrolysis Technology Powers Vulcan Energy's new Carbon-Neutral Lithium Plant

    Electrolysis Technology Powers Vulcan Energy's new Carbon-Neutral Lithium Plant

    Electrolysis Technology Powers Vulcan Energy's new Carbon-Neutral Lithium Plant
    ­NORAM Electrolysis Systems Inc. (NESI), a Vancouver-based clean technology company advancing industrial electrochemical processing, is marking a major international commercialization milestone as construction begins on Vulcan Energy Resources’ Central Lithium Plant at Infraserv Industrial Park Höchst in Fr
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    05/08/2026
    CDM Inc. Named Exclusive Global Distributor of the StartStick Portable Ground Power Unit for Military Ground Vehicles

    Startstick portable ground power unit for military ground Vehicles

    CDM Inc. Named Exclusive Global Distributor of the StartStick Portable Ground Power Unit for Military Ground Vehicles
    ­CDM, Inc., a full line distributor of interconnect products, and manufacturer of engineered cable assemblies and fabricated metalworks, today announced it has been named exclusive global distributor of ABS’s (Aviation Battery Systems LLC) StartStick. Portable and lightweight, the NATO-Spec StartStick GPU mi
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    05/08/2026
    EV Li-ion Batteries Market Set to Reach US $320 Billion by 2036

    Global Electric Car Battery Chemistry Market Share 2015-2025. Source: IDTechEx

    EV Li-ion Batteries Market Set to Reach US $320 Billion by 2036
    ­The market for Li-ion batteries in electric vehicles (EVs) is set to grow from US$170 billion in 2026 to US$320 billion in 2036, representing a CAGR of 6.5%. This is driven predominantly by growth in battery electric (BEV) cars, especially in China; however, Europe is also seeing increasing adoption, and while th
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    Date:
    05/08/2026
    Renesas Completes Acquisition of Irida Labs to Expand Vision AI Software Capabilities

    Gaurang Shah, Vice President and General Manager, Embedded Processing Product Group

    Renesas Completes Acquisition of Irida Labs to Expand Vision AI Software Capabilities
    ­Renesas Electronics Corporation, a premier supplier of advanced semiconductor solutions, today announced that a subsidiary of Renesas has completed the acquisition of Irida Labs, a Greece-based company specializing in embedded software for AI-powered visual perception systems. The ac
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    05/08/2026
    Morse Micro Partners with DigiKey to Expand Global Access to Wi-Fi HaLow Solutions

    Morse Micro Partners with DigiKey to Expand Global Access to Wi-Fi HaLow Solutions

    Morse Micro Partners with DigiKey to Expand Global Access to Wi-Fi HaLow Solutions
    ­Morse Micro, the world’s leading Wi-Fi HaLow silicon provider, today announced a distribution partnership with DigiKey, the global distribution leader of electronic components and automation products. The partnership expands global access to Morse Micro’s award-winning Wi-Fi HaLow products, making it
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    05/07/2026
    Construction's CIOs Sound the Alarm on Data Ownership and AI Readiness

    Marc Schütz, Chief Product Officer at Revizto

    Construction's CIOs Sound the Alarm on Data Ownership and AI Readiness
    ­New research from Revizto, the leading collaboration platform for the Architecture, Engineering, Construction & Operations (AECO) sector, reveals that 96% of CIOs report concern about data ownership and control across their tech stacks.  The debate is no longer primarily about cost or which tools
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    05/07/2026
    Hirect Launches Advanced Copper Conductors for High-Power Transformers and Motors

    Hirect Launches Advanced Copper Conductors for High-Power Transformers and Motors

    Hirect Launches Advanced Copper Conductors for High-Power Transformers and Motors
    ­Hirect today announced the commercial availability of its new, high-performance copper conductor product line. The new products — Continuously Transposed Conductors (CTC), Paper Insulated Copper Conductors (PICC), and Enameled Paper Insulated Copper Conductors (EPICC) — are manufactured at Hirect’s newly in
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    05/07/2026
    Solaris Selects Ballard's FCmove‑SC Engine to Power its Next‑Generation Hydrogen Bus Platform

    Marty Neese, Ballard's CEO and President

    Solaris Selects Ballard's FCmove‑SC Engine to Power its Next‑Generation Hydrogen Bus Platform
    ­Ballard Power Systems announced that Solaris Bus & Coach sp. z o.o., a leading European bus manufacturer and long‑standing Ballard partner, has formally selected Ballard as the fuel cell supplier for its next‑generation hydrogen bus. This selection includes the integration of Ballard's FCmove®
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    Date:
    05/06/2026
    Same Sky Launches New Microphone Development Kits

    Same Sky Launches New Microphone Development Kits

    Same Sky Launches New Microphone Development Kits
    Same Sky® and its Audio Group today announced the introduction of microphone development kits. Each kit consists of four independent microphone evaluation circuits with plated through hole I/O terminals for multiple testing options. The four detachable evaluation circuits each offer a different Sam
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    Date:
    05/05/2026
    Optimizing the 800 V to 48 V/50 V Power Path for AI Data Center Servers

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    Figure 1: Evolution of data center power architecture: (a) today: AC distribution, integrated IT racks; (b,c) next-gen systems: AC distribution, disaggregated IT racks with 50 V servers (b) or 800 V servers (c); (d) future systems: data center-wide HVDC, 800 V servers

    Optimizing the 800 V to 48 V/50 V Power Path for AI Data Center Servers
    Giuseppe Bernacchia, Distinguished Engineer and Roberto Rizzolati, Senior Principal Engineer; both at Infineon Technologies AG

    The rapid growth of AI and accelerated computing is fundamentally reshaping power‑delivery requirements inside modern data centers. As GPU clusters scale towards and beyond 1 MW/rack, traditional 48 V rack‑level distribution is reaching its practical limits due to high currents, thermal stress, and increasing cop
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    Date:
    05/04/2026
    SiTime Boosts GPU Utilization in AI Data Centers with Elite 2 Super-TCXO

    SiTime Boosts GPU Utilization in AI Data Centers with Elite 2 Super-TCXO

    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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    05/04/2026
    KYOCERA AVX Releases Multilayer Varistors Optimized for 48V Automotive Power Supply Systems

    KYOCERA AVX Releases Multilayer Varistors Optimized for 48V Automotive Power Supply Systems

    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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    Date:
    05/04/2026
    STMicroelectronics Reveals VIPerGaN 100W Converters for Energy-Efficient Appliances

    STMicroelectronics Reveals VIPerGaN 100W Converters for Energy-Efficient Appliances

    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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    Date:
    05/04/2026
    Supersonic Success: S and T Scholars Sharpen Wind Tunnel Simulations

    Dr. Davide Viganò examines Missouri S&T’s supersonic wind tunnel. Photo by Blaine Falkena/Missouri S&T.

    Supersonic Success: S and T Scholars Sharpen Wind Tunnel Simulations
    Researchers at Missouri University of Science and Technology have developed a more accurate way to predict conditions inside wind tunnels that are used to study how air behaves at speeds up to four times faster than the speed of sound, or over 3,000 miles per hour.    “Traditional approaches to
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    Date:
    05/04/2026
    ROHM Launches an Ultra-Compact Wireless Power Chipset for Wearables

    ROHM Launches an Ultra-Compact Wireless Power Chipset for Wearables

    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
    The Highs and Lows of APEC 2026

    Jason Lomberg, North American Editor, PSD

    The Highs and Lows of APEC 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
    Ensuring Data Centre Readiness

    Ally Winning, European Editor, PSD

    Ensuring Data Centre Readiness
    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
    Why Higher Rack Density is Changing Interconnect Designs

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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

    Why Higher Rack Density is Changing Interconnect Designs
    Ken Williams, Product Manager, Anderson Power

    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
    Powering the AI Revolution: Navigating the Gridlock and the Future of Onsite Generation

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    Figure 1: AI scaling laws show that larger models trained with exponentially more compute consistently achieve better performance

    Powering the AI Revolution: Navigating the Gridlock and the Future of Onsite Generation
    James Feasey, Senior Director of AI Infrastructure at Endeavour

    ­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
    Hardware and Software Understanding Delivers High-Performance Embedded AI

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    Figure 1: TRIA SM2S-QCS6490 - Compute Module by Tria

    Hardware and Software Understanding Delivers High-Performance Embedded AI
    Christian Bauer, Product Marketing Manager, Tria Technologies

    ­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
    Generative Physics: Why AI's Next Breakthrough Will Be Engineered, Not Generated

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    Figure 1: Raspberry Pi Pico Thermal Demo in GPStudio

    Generative Physics: Why AI's Next Breakthrough Will Be Engineered, Not Generated
    Wasil Rezk, CCO, BeyondMath

    ­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
    Smarter Together: How Agentic AI and Cobots Are Transforming Industrial Operations

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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

    Smarter Together: How Agentic AI and Cobots Are Transforming Industrial Operations
    Dijam Panigrahi, Co-founder & COO, GridRaster, Inc.

    ­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
    Protection and Telemetry in AI with 800V Hot Swap

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    Figure 1: 48V data centre power delivery to rack

    Protection and Telemetry in AI with 800V Hot Swap
    Donal McCarthy, Marketing Director of Data Centre Power, Analog Devices

    ­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
    Enabling Grid-Ready Data Centres

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    Enabling Grid-Ready Data Centres
    Mike Torbitt, Managing Director, Cressall Resistors

    ­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
    Powering Data Centers Sustainably in an AI World

    Kevin Parmenter, Pins Out Engineering, for TSC America, Inc.

    Powering Data Centers Sustainably in an AI World
    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
    AI and the Dark Web

    Jason Lomberg, North American Editor, PSD

    AI and the Dark Web
    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
    When Life Gives You Lemons

    Ally Winning, European Editor, PSD

    When Life Gives You Lemons
    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
    When the Supply Voltage Is Dynamic

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    Figure 1: An ADP1047 PFC stage with a downstream ADP1046 dc-to-dc converter

    When the Supply Voltage Is Dynamic
    Frederik Dostal, Power Management Expert, Analog Devices

    ­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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