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San Jose based Pre-Switch is reporting 98.5% efficiency at 5% load from its 800Vin ‘CleanWave2’ prototype inverter. Peak efficiency is 99.57%. It is a 100kHz forced-resonant, soft-switching inverter, controlled by an AI algorithm (more on the technology here). “Over a year ago we announced peak efficiency of over 99%. Since that time, we have been ...
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Car part maker Continental has been speaking about its next-generation modular vehicle electrical-electronic architecture. “The growing variety of vehicle functions requires more and more computing power and increasingly complex software applications,” said the company’s CTO Gilles Mabire. “Continental’s new architecture is paving the way for the software-defined vehicle.” Dubbed ZCU, it will be server-based, with ...
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Agile Analog, the Cambridge analogue startup, has joined the Intel Foundry Services (IFS) Accelerator IP Alliance Program. Through this collaboration Agile Analog will make its  analogue IP product portfolio available to the IFS ecosystem to help drive forward innovation in semiconductor design. Members of the IFS Accelerator IP Alliance Program play an important role in ...
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Former Tsinghua-Unigroup chairman Zhao Weiguo (pictured) is to be charged under anti-graft laws says China’s Commission for Discipline Inspection Zhao’s case follows a string of investigations into the mismanagement of China government funds which were intended  to give China a leading position in semiconductor  manufacturing. Anong those under investigation are: former minister Xiai Yaqing, Big ...
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The UK thermal infrared satellite firm Satellite Vu is partnering with Surrey Research Park (SRP) to demonstrate the use of thermal imaging technology for the built environment. The earth observation specialist will perform a series of flights across the 70 acre landscape to map the built environment and provide data on the level of heat ...
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GaN Systems  has  a GaN-based 11kW/800V On-Board Charger (OBC) reference design that claims to deliver 36% higher power density and a BOM up to 15% cheaper than SiC transistors. Using GaN transistors in an 800V OBC is an innovation that gives this 11kW/800V design its edge. The OBC combines a three-level flying capacitor topology for ...
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