面向大电流、高频的负载点应用的EPC9059开发板内含业界第一种单个半桥式增强型氮化镓(eGaN^®)集成电路，可实现更高功率密度。

宜普电源转换公司（EPC）推出半桥式开发板（EPC9059），专为大电流、高频的负载点（POL）应用而设，目的是利用氮化镓集成电路（eGaN IC）的优势，缩小功率转换系统的尺寸。该板具有30 V最高器件电压、50 A 最大输出电流。在这应用中，两个30 V 的eGaN IC（EPC2100）并联工作并配备板载驱动器，从而可以实现更高的输出电流。与硅基MOSFET相比，由于氮化镓器件具有卓越的均流能力，因此更适合并联操作。

Improving low-voltage DC/DC converter performance with GaN transistors:
The emergence of commercially available and cost-effective gallium nitride (GaN) power transistors begins a new age in power electronics. There are significant benefits in using enhancement-mode gallium nitride FET (eGaN FET) devices in power converters for existing data center and telecommunications architectures centering around an input voltage of 48 VDC with load voltages as low as 1 VDC. High-performance GaN power transistors can enable new approaches to power data center and telecommunications systems with higher efficiency and higher power density than possible with previous Si MOSFET based architectures.

Power Systems Design
David Reusch, Ph.D., and John Glaser, Ph.D.
January, 25, 2016
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Some of the best minds in our industry, like the group that was at a DesignCon 2016 book signing. Among them was Michael de Rooij, Efficient Power Conversion VP of Application Engineering who signed copies of his book Wireless Power Handbook, Second Edition. DesignCon attendees enjoyed browsing and buying books and having the authors autograph them as well. The authors also answered questions and discussed their areas of expertise with inquiring minds in attendance.

EDN Network
January 22, 2016
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宜普电源转换公司（EPC）推出由业界专家制作合共九个教程单元的高级教学视频系列，内容涵盖设计基础、DC/DC转换应用、无线充电应用、器件的可靠性及氮化镓场效应晶体管（eGaN FET）及集成电路的各种其它应用。

宜普电源转换公司（EPC）增加合共九个教程单元的教学视频系列，扩大它的视频资源以拓展氮化镓技术的知识库，为功率系统设计工程师提供高级技术教程，包括应用范例，教授如何使用氮化镓晶体管及集成电路设计出更高效的功率转换系统。

宜普电源转换公司（EPC）的全新开发板帮助功率系统设计师容易并且快速地 对应用于E类放大器拓扑、电流模式D类放大器拓扑及push-pull 转换器的200 V氮化镓晶体管进行评估，其工作效率可以高达30 MHz。

宜普电源转换公司（EPC）宣布推出高频、基于氮化镓晶体管并采用差分模式的开发板，可以在高达30 MHz下工作。 推出开发板的目的是帮助功率系统设计师利用简易方法对氮化镓晶体管的优越性能进行评估，使得他们的产品可以快速量产。

Award Recognizes Innovation in Power Device Technology for Enabling the Commercialization of GaN

EL SEGUNDO, Calif, — January 2016 — Today, Efficient Power Conversion (EPC) announced that its CEO Alex Lidow was selected as the recipient of the 2015 SEMI Award for North America for the innovation of power device technology, enabling the commercialization of GaN. Dr. Lidow is being honored for his work in the area of Process and Technology Integration.

张远哲博士将为业界的包络跟踪应用创建设计基准及帮助客户利用氮化镓场效应晶体管（eGaN^® FET）实现高频、高性能的电源转换系统。

宜普电源转换公司（EPC）宣布张远哲（Yuanzhe Zhang）博士加入EPC的应用工程团队，担任应用工程总监。

According to Powerpulse.net, “This selection is based on EPC's domination of the 50 most-read product news stories for 2015. EPC products account 8 of the top 50 product stories for 2015 (as measured by readership). This is the first time that a single company has accounted for such a large number of product news stories (that amounts to 2 per quarter), including 1 in the Top 10 and 5 in the Top 20.”

PowerPulse.net
January 4, 2016
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With the backdrop of slower global economic growth and expected higher interest rate in 2016, Alex Lidow, CEO of Efficient Power Conversion Corporation opines that companies looking for late-stage financing will see a greater emphasis on fundamentals such as revenue, margin and cash flow, and a lower emphasis on less-tangible metrics, such as the size of an audience without strong monetization.

Los Angeles Business Journal
December 23, 2015
By: Garrett Reim
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With mega deals for mergers and acquisitions took place in the past year, would innovations be stalled? Alex Lidow, CEO of Efficient Power Conversion Corporation said if you look at semiconductor end sales in this century, we have only seen a 5% compounded annual growth rate. It’s clearly showing signs of an end market that is very large and very mature and in the same time, the cost for a new facility or new product has skyrocketed.

Market Watch
December 23, 2015
By: Therese Poletti
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氮化镓场效应晶体管--EPC2035/36被评选为《EDN》杂志2015年度最热门产品百强榜单。EPC2035/36氮化镓场效应晶体管的价格低、具备更高的性能、更小的尺寸及与等效硅基解决方案相比，其成本更低。这是5年内EPC氮化镓产品第3次荣登该杂志最热门产品百强榜单。

硅基增强型氮化镓场效应晶体管之全球领导厂商宜普电源转换公司(www.epc-co.com.cn) 宣布其高频、低价格的氮化镓场效应晶体管（eGaN FET）- EPC203560 V）及EPC2036（100 V） 被评选为《EDN》杂志2015年度最热门产品百强之一。

在2014年，美国的数据中心用上了1000亿千瓦小时（KWh）能量。雪上加霜的是，这个快速增长的所需能量，大部分是由基于超过一世纪前设立的基建、非常低效的供电网路支持。浪费了的能量有多严重？供电网路为一个数字晶片提供150 W功率，而实际上，它可能只需要100 W。 此外，由于在电源转换过程中，每一瓦功耗会转化为热量，因此实际上所浪费的能量更大。而我们必需利用昂贵及耗电的空调机来为伺服器群散热。空调机大约需要1 W来除去1 W的功耗，这相等于已经低的能源转换效率将再降低一倍。

全新半导体材料的出现可提高能源转换效率，其成本也可以更低。在伺服器群中的功率结构的最后阶段解决低效率的问题，可以实现每年节省70亿千瓦小时的能量。如果一并计算空调机的能源成本，总成本倍增并占了美国的所有伺服器的总能耗的14%。所能够节省的成本也是非常巨大的。以每一千瓦小时的平均成本0.12美元来计算，每年可以节省的总成本高达17亿美元，这还没有包括由于采用更少数量的功率转换器及空调机而得以额外节省的系统成本。

Datacenter Dynamics
2015年12月15日
作者：Alex Lidow
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《无线电源手册》第二版是全新增订本，旨在帮助工程师如何发挥氮化镓功率晶体管的卓越性能以设计出面向无线电源传送系统的高效放大器。

宜普电源转换公司（www.epc-co.com.cn）宣布推出《无线电源手册》第二版。出版本实用工程手册的目的是为功率系统设计工程师提供宝贵设计经验及参考数据以了解如何利用氮化镓晶体管设计出高效无线电源系统。

作为宜普电源转换公司的教科书《氮化镓晶体管—高效功率转换器件》的增刊及一本新增了内容的实用指南，本书提供详细分析如何逐步设计完成基于氮化镓晶体管的无线电源传送系统，内容涵盖如何比较组件，例如在放大器设计中，对氮化镓场效应晶体管（eGaN^®FET）与MOSFET进行比较，并配以实验证明于这种高性能的应用中，采用eGaN FET如何比采用MOSFET的放大器更为卓越。

清华紫光集团计划用470亿美元战争资金（war chest）并购公司，并且锐意成为全球第三大芯片制造商。宜普电源转换公司首席执行官及共同创办人Alex Lidow对此作出评论。

Investor's Business Daily
作者： Allison Gatlin
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Cataldo先生带领宜普电源转换公司（EPC）的销售及市场营销团队，帮助客户采用氮化镓场效应晶体管（eGaN FET）及集成电路实现领先的功率转换系统。

宜普电源转换公司（EPC）宣布Nick Cataldo加入EPC的管理团队，担任全球销售及市场营销高级副总裁职位，以配合宜普公司正在加速发展的步伐。Cataldo先生在半导体业界拥有超过35年的市场营销及销售营运的经验。他的主要职责是制定及执行销售及市场营销策略，从而达到公司的全球销售目标。

宜普电源转换公司首席执行官及共同创办人Alex Lidow在彭博电台访问中讨论半导体领域近来一连串及频繁的并购活动，以及氮化镓（GaN）技术如何在业界替代硅器件。

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宜普电源转换公司（EPC）首席执行官Alex Lidow与Light Reading分享他有可能两年之内的突破是颠倒整个半导体市场 -- 在氮化镓中实现CMOS逻辑

Light Reading
作者：Brian Santo
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DC-DC “brick” converters are familiar to many engineers, and have wide usage in telecommunications, networking, data centers, and many other applications. This is due in large part to adoption of a common footprint defined by the Distributed-power Open Standards Alliance (DOSA) and generally accepted input/output voltage ranges. These converters provide isolation and voltage step-down, and have become increasingly sophisticated, with features that enable advanced system optimization and control.

EDN Network
November 23, 2015
By: John Glaser
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“The semiconductor industry will become one where there are a lot of large corporations and smaller companies will, in effect, be outsourced R&D, much like the pharmaceutical sector,” says Alex Lidow, CEO of Efficient Power Conversion. He says in this scenario Qorvo Corporation and Intersil Corp. could become attractive targets.

Lidow, however, believes consolidation may bring a dark ages to innovation in the semiconductor industry.

Forbes
November 23, 2015
By: Antoine Gara
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The future is clear, but, when that future is going to happen and who is going to benefit? That's not clear. I think the adoption rate is anybody's guess.

Investors Business Daily
November 17, 2015
By: Allison Gatlin
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