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    Alliance Memory Expands 4Gb LPDDR4, 8Gb LPDDR4X, and 16Gb LPDDR4X SDRAMs Operating at Fast Clock Speeds up to 2.133GHz, With Data Rates up to 4.266Gbps

    Alliance Memory Expands 4Gb LPDDR4, 8Gb LPDDR4X, and 16Gb LPDDR4X SDRAMs Operating at Fast Clock Speeds up to 2.133GHz, With Data Rates up to 4.266Gbps

    ­Alliance Memory announced that it has expanded its offering of high-speed CMOS mobile low-power SDRAMs with new 4Gb LPDDR4 and 8Gb and 16Gb LPDDR4X devices that combine low power ratings with fast clock speeds and high data rates in 200-ball VFBGA and FBGA packages. With low-voltage operation down to 0.6V,
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    Date:
    11/02/2026
    New Study: Right Power Technology Choices for Off-Grid Data Centres Could Deliver up to EUR 200 Billion in Global Savings

    A new study from Wärtsilä outlines how smarter power choices could turn the data centre boom into an opportunity to accelerate renewable energy growth, while significantly reducing costs, land...

    ­With global data centre capacity projected to almost triple by 2035, a new study from Wärtsilä outlines how smarter power choices could turn this boom into an opportunity to accelerate renewable energy growth, while significantly reducing costs, land and water use. The study, 'Unlock power. Unleash growth
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    Date:
    11/02/2026
    Infineon Enables Car Computers for Automated Driving and Digital Cockpits Powered by Qualcomm Snapdragon Ride

    Peter Schiefer, Division President Automotive at Infineon.

    ­Infineon Technologies AG announced today that it is working with Qualcomm Technologies, Inc. to accelerate the development and deployment of central car computers in software-defined vehicles (SDVs). The companies have signed a technology agreement to have a microcontroller-based design pattern (the “subsystem”) fo
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    Date:
    11/02/2026
    A Biennial Detour to Munich, Germany

    Jason Lomberg, North America Editor, PSD

    ­Welcome to the November issue! As you read this, you should be either preparing for, or having taken part in electronica. And given that the “world’s leading electronics trade fair and conference” recently celebrated its 60th anniversary – yes, seriously – I thought it was worth taking a deeper
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    Date:
    11/01/2026
    Pushing Power Semiconductors to the Limit

    Ally Winning, European Editor, PSD

    ­Welcome to the November issue of Power Systems Design Europe. This month our Special Report is on power semiconductors, which are the bread and butter of the industry. The last few years have made really interesting viewing as wide-bandgap semiconductors have established themselves in the market and are fighting si
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    Date:
    11/01/2026
    Asset Investment Under Fire as the Wildfire Season Approaches: How Utilities are Taking Action!

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    Figure 1: Wildfires have proven to cause catastrophic damage to communities, infrastructure, and the wider environment, putting citizen lives, and billions of dollars at risk

    ­Wildfires have proven to cause catastrophic damage to communities, infrastructure, and the wider environment, putting citizen lives, and billions of dollars at risk. Utilities are under immense pressure to make capital decisions that minimize the damage, whether it be heavy infrastructure hardening or operation
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    Date:
    11/01/2026
    A Better Battery Starts at the Cathode

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    Figure 1: Pouch cells built to evaluate performance, cycle life, and safety characteristics

    ­Global battery demand is experiencing exponential growth, driven by electric vehicles, data center backup power, and grid-scale energy storage. Currently, the battery market surpasses $150 billion. Battery manufacturers face mounting pressure to improve performance while simultaneously reducing costs, en
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    Date:
    11/01/2026
    Designing the Thermal Path for a Baseplate-Cooled Power Supply

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    Figure 1: The CCR420 (left) combines baseplate cooling with heat dissipation to the surrounding air while the ASB320 (right) is designed principally for conduction cooling through its baseplate

    ­Choosing a baseplate-cooled power supply is only part of the thermal design. The baseplate provides a thermal path for losses from heat-generating components, but what happens beyond that point depends on the equipment in which the supply is installed. The baseplate may be coupled to a chassis, a cold wall or
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    Date:
    11/01/2026
    Hardware-in-the-Loop Testing Supports eVTOL Certification

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    Figure 1: Model-based design workflows allow system models to be deployed to real-time hardware-in-the-loop platforms for closed-loop controller validation

    ­Electric vertical take-off and landing (eVTOL) aircraft are at the center of the transition to electrified propulsion and distributed aircraft architectures, and they form the technological foundation of the urban air mobility (UAM) sector. Recent industry analysis estimates that the advanced air mobility ma
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    Date:
    11/01/2026
    The Advantages of Migrating from Planar Rad Hard MOSFETs to Superjunction Topology

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    Figure 1: Illustrating the differences in power architectures

    ­For decades, planar-topology MOSFETs have been the workhorse of radiation-hardened (rad-hard) applications, providing a foundation for robust power management in critically important systems that must perform flawlessly in the harshest of environments. These environments include outer space, high-altitude fl
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    Date:
    11/01/2026
    How MEMS-Based Circuit Breaker Are Redefining AI Data Center Power Distribution

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    ­Recent McKinsey analysis projects that global data center capacity demand could nearly triple by 2030, driven by the rapid scaling of AI workloads and the resulting structural shift in compute architecture across hyperscale and enterprise infrastructure. For power infrastructure providers, this expansion represents no
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    Date:
    11/01/2026
    AI's Power Problem Is a Passive-Component Problem

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    Figure 1: With AI data-centre power consumption scaling toward thousands of terawatt-hours, overall system efficiency is increasingly decided in the power delivery network between the grid and the processor

    ­AI has become the single most important driver of data-centre electricity demand. According to the International Energy Agency's “Energy and AI” report, published in April 2025, data centres worldwide drew around 415 terawatt-hours in 2024, roughly 1.5 percent of global electricity demand. In the agency's base
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    Date:
    11/01/2026
    Minimising Noise in High-Current Applications

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    Figure 1: Noise measurement block diagram

    ­Conventional step-down switching regulators have several sources of noise that affect low-frequency (<100kHz) performance. Most critical noise sources include feedback voltage reference, error amplifier, noise from the resistor divider used to set the output voltage, and noise gain created by this resistor di
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    Date:
    11/01/2026
    Succeeding In the Power Semiconductor Business

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

    ­The power semiconductor business is undergoing a fundamental transformation as virtually every major industry is moving to the electrification of everything. From electric vehicles and renewable energy to data centers, industrial automation, consumer electronics and aerospace systems, power semiconductors ha
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    Date:
    11/01/2026
    Is Taxing AI the Right Move?

    Jason Lomberg, North America Editor, PSD

    ­Tech luminary Bill Gates has become the latest proponent of an AI tax that could, in theory, protect the labor market. But is a token or excise tax really the best way to contain the spread of AI? Should the U.S. even try to contain it? Gates’ proposed AI tax would counteract a system that, in theory, e
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    Date:
    11/01/2026
    Reconfigurable Battery Could Extend EV Lifespan

    Ally Winning, European Editor, PSD

    ­One of the main obstacles to EV adoption is battery lifespan. Although improved manufacturing has extended battery life beyond original estimates of eight to ten years, replacement costs remain a concern. Researchers in Sweden have developed an approach that could extend battery life by over a year while reducing ow
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    Date:
    11/01/2026
    The  Golden Rule of Board Layout for Switch-Mode Power Supplies

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    Figure 1: The board of an LT8640S switching regulator with closely spaced components and thus a compact board layout

    ­This article explains the basis for achieving an optimized board layout, a critical aspect in the design of switch-mode power supplies. A good layout ensures stable functioning of the switching regulator and minimizes radiated interference as well as conducted interference (EMI). This is widely known by electronics dev
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    Date:
    11/01/2026
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