The adoption of USB-C as a global charging standard is gathering pace, particularly in the EU where it has been made mandatory for many applications. Most manufacturers do not wish to make two separate designs for their products, so if they have any sales in Europe at all, it makes sense for them to
GaN offers a lot of benefits to designers of power supplies. Possibly the most important two of those features are GaN’s higher efficiency, and its ability to switch faster, allowing smaller magnetics to be used and therefore enabling more compact designs. However, those pluses come with one signifi
The biggest challenge for power designers at the moment is supplying energy to data centers. Operators are looking to put more processors on their PCBs, but keep the same space allocated for power. The new processors that are being installed are also much more power hungry than the ones that they are replaci
