面向大電流、高頻的負載點應用的EPC9059開發板內含業界第一種單個半橋式增強型氮化鎵(eGaN^®)積體電路，可實現更高功率密度。

宜普電源轉換公司（EPC）推出半橋式開發板（EPC9059），專為大電流、高頻的負載點（POL）應用而設，目的是利用氮化鎵積體電路（eGaN IC）的優勢，縮小功率轉換系統的尺寸。該板具有30 V最高元件電壓、50 A 最大輸出電流。在這應用中，兩個30 V的 eGaN IC（EPC2100）並聯工作並配備板載驅動器，從而可以實現更高的輸出電流。與矽基MOSFET相比，由於氮化鎵元件具有卓越的均流能力，因此更適合並聯操作。

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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宜普電源轉換公司（EPC）推出由業界專家製作合共九個教程單元的高級教學視頻系列，內容涵蓋設計基礎、DC/DC轉換應用、無線充電應用、元件的可靠性元件的可靠性及氮化鎵場效應電晶體（eGaN FET）及積體電路的各種其它應用。

宜普電源轉換公司（EPC）增加合共九個教程單元的教學視頻系列，擴大它的視頻資源以拓展氮化鎵技術的知識庫，為功率系統設計工程師提供高級技術教程，包括應用範例，教授如何使用氮化鎵電晶體及積體電路設計出更高效的功率轉換系統。

宜普電源轉換公司（EPC）的全新開發板幫助功率系統設計師容易並且快速地 對應用於E類放大器、電流模式D類放大器及push-pull轉換器的200 V氮化鎵電晶體進行評估，其工作效率可以高達30 MHz。

宜普電源轉換公司（EPC）宣佈推出高頻、基於氮化鎵電晶體並採用差分模式的開發板，可以在高達30 MHz下工作。 推出開發板的目的是幫助功率系統設計師利用簡易方法對氮化鎵電晶體的優越性能進行評估，使得他們的產品可以快速量產。

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.

張遠哲博士將為業界的波峰追蹤應用創建設計基準及幫助客戶利用氮化鎵場效應電晶體（eGaN^® FET）實現高頻、高性能的電源轉換系統。

宜普電源轉換公司（EPC）宣佈張遠哲（Yuanzhe Zhang）博士加入EPC的應用工程團隊，擔任應用工程總監。

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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氮化鎵場效應電晶體--EPC2035/36被評選爲《EDN》雜誌2015年度最熱門產品百强榜單。EPC2035/36氮化鎵場效應電晶體的價格低、具備更高的性能、更小的尺寸及與等效矽基解決方案相比，其成本更低。這是5年內EPC氮化鎵產品第3次榮登該雜誌最熱門產品百强榜單。

矽基增强型氮化鎵場效應電晶體之全球領導廠商宜普電源轉換公司(www.epc-co.com.tw ) 宣佈其高頻、低價格的氮化鎵場效應電晶體（eGaN FET）- EPC2035（60 V）及 EPC2036（100 V） 被評選爲《EDN》雜誌2015年度最熱門產品百强之一。

在2014年，美國的數據中心用上了1000億千瓦小時（KWh）能量。雪上加霜的是，這個快速增長的所需能量，大部份是由基於超過一世紀前設立的基建、非常低效的供電網路支持。浪費了的能量有多嚴重？供電網路為一個數字晶片提供150 W功率，而實際上，它可能只需要100 W。 此外，由於在電源轉換過程中，每一瓦功耗會轉化為熱量，因此實際上所浪費的能量更大。而我們必需利用昂貴及耗電的空調機來為伺服器群散熱。空調機大約需要1 W來除去1 W的功耗，這相等於已經低的能源轉換效率將再降低一倍。

全新半導體材料的出現可提高能源轉換效率，其成本也可以更低。在伺服器群中的功率結構的最後階段解決低效率的問題，可以實現每年節省70億千瓦小時的能量。如果一併計算空調機的能源成本，總成本倍增並佔了美國的所有伺服器的總能耗的14%。所能夠節省的成本也是非常巨大的。以每一千瓦小時的平均成本0.12美元來計算，每年可以節省的總成本高達17億美元，這還沒有包括由於採用更少數量的功率轉換器及空調機而得以額外節省的系統成本。

Datacenter Dynamics
2015年12月15日
作者：Alex Lidow
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《無線電源手冊》第二版是全新增訂本，旨在幫助工程師如何發揮氮化鎵功率電晶體的卓越性能以設計出面向無線電源傳送系統的高效放大器。

宜普電源轉換公司（www.epc-co.com.tw）宣佈推出《無線電源手冊》第二版。出版本實用工程手冊的目的是為功率系統設計工程師提供寶貴設計經驗及參考資料以瞭解如何利用氮化鎵電晶體設計出高效無線電源系統。

作為宜普電源轉換公司的教科書《氮化鎵電晶體—高效功率轉換元件》的增刊及一本新增了內容的實用指南，本書提供詳細分析如何逐步設計完成基於氮化鎵電晶體的無線電源傳送系統，內容涵蓋如何比較元件，例如在放大器設計中，對氮化鎵場效應電晶體（eGaN^®FET）與MOSFET進行比較，並配以實驗證明在這種高性能的應用中，採用eGaN FET如何比採用MOSFET的放大器更為卓越。

清華紫光集團計劃用470億美元戰爭資金（war chest）購倂公司，並且銳意成為全球第三大晶片製造商。宜普電源轉換公司首席執行長及共同創辦人Alex Lidow對此作出評論。

Investor's Business Daily
作者： Allison Gatlin
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Cataldo先生帶領宜普電源轉換公司（EPC）的銷售及市場行銷團隊，幫助客戶採用氮化鎵場效應電晶體（eGaN FET）及積體電路實現領先的功率轉換系統。

宜普電源轉換公司（EPC）宣佈Nick Cataldo加入EPC的管理團隊，擔任全球銷售及市場行銷高級副總裁職位，以配合宜普公司正在加速發展的步伐。Cataldo先生在半導體業界擁有超過35年的市場行銷及銷售營運的經驗。他的主要職責是制定及執行銷售及市場行銷策略，從而達到公司的全球銷售目標。

宜普電源轉換公司首席執行長及共同創辦人Alex Lidow在彭博電台訪問中討論半導體領域近來一連串及頻繁的倂購活動，以及氮化鎵（GaN）技術如何在業界替代矽元件。

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宜普電源轉換公司（EPC）首席執行長Alex Lidow與Light Reading分享他有可能兩年之內的突破是顛倒整個半導體市場 -- 在氮化鎵中實現CMOS邏輯

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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