Bel Power Solutions and Protection, a Bel group company announces the SPSPFF3 System (Power Modules, Shelf, Controller and Power Distribution Unit (PDU)). These products are designed for systems and applications where DC-DC conversion from an existing -48 V supply to 12 V is required, such as central offices redesigned as data centers. The SPSPFF3 System […]
Data centers
PCIe Gen 4 development platform helps develop switches with up to 48 ports and 48 NTBs
Microsemi Corporation announced the availability of its Switchtec PCIe Gen 4 development platform. Microsemi’s new development platform enables customers to immediately begin PCIe Gen 4 system hardware designs based on the company’s PCIe Gen 4 switch and develop firmware using its Switchtec software development kit (SDK). PCIe Gen 4 represents an exciting new advancement in input/output […]
Chipsets speed development of data center SSD projects
Marvell today announced that it is launching innovative NVM Express® (NVMe™)-based chipset solutions that will accelerate the time to market for application-optimized data center SSD implementations. These new, highly-versatile building blocks can optimally address current and emerging workload storage requirements, spanning capacity, latency, performance, power and cost, to enable tailored SSD solutions for specific cloud and […]
Alliance formed to collaborate on 48V-to-low voltage on-board DC-DC power supplies
At the Open Compute U.S. Summit 2018 today, four leading suppliers of power solutions announced a new alliance, the Power Stamp Alliance, to create collaborative solutions for 48V-to-low-voltage on-board DC-DC power converters. These 48V direct conversion DC-DC modules – or ‘power stamps’ – primarily target high-performance computers and servers being used in large data centers, […]
Bel Power Solutions to attend the Open Compute Project (OCP) U.S. Summit 2018 in San Jose, CA
Bel Power Solutions and Protection announces their participation at the upcoming Open Compute Project (OCP) U.S. Summit 2018 on March 20-21st at the San Jose Convention Center in San Jose, CA. at Booth B14. The Open Compute Project (OCP) is a 501(c)(6) organization, founded in 2011 by Facebook, Intel, and Rackspace, whose mission is to apply the benefits of open […]
150-V dual synchronous step-down DC/DC controller eliminates external surge protection devices
Analog Devices announces the Power by Linear LTC7810, a high voltage non-isolated 150-V dual synchronous step-down DC/DC controller that drives all N-channel MOSFET power stages. Its 4.5V to 140V (150V abs max) input voltage range is designed to operate from a high input voltage or from an input that has high voltage surges, eliminating the need […]
First 16-port 50GbE PHY transceiver
Marvell announced the launch of the 88X7120 50GbE PHY transceiver, the latest offering in its Alaska C family of high-speed Ethernet physical layer (PHY) transceivers, designed to improve bandwidth and performance in the data center. The new transceiver is purpose-built to address the transition in hyperscale data centers from 25GbE (Gigabit Ethernet) and 100GbE to 50GbE, 200GbE and […]
Power modules provide 1 kA from 48-V sources to run GPU/CPU/XPUs efficiently
Vicor Corporation announced a new Power-on-Package (“PoP”) ChiP-set including Modular Current Multipliers (“MCMs”) for high performance GPU, CPU, and ASIC (“XPU”) processors. PoP MCMs multiply current and divide voltage from a 48V source in close proximity to XPUs to enable higher levels of XPU performance. Power distribution efficiency and system density rise beyond the limitations […]
SoC delivers data center processor architecture in 14nm
Designed to meet the high-performance requirements of a large variety of high-demand applications and services from the data center core to the edge, the new Intel Xeon D-21 processor brings the advanced intelligence of the Xeon Scalable processor architecture into an optimized, dense, lower-power system-on-a-chip (SoC) form factor for environments constrained by space and power. […]
SMD pulse transformers for Gigabit Ethernet and PoE
TDK Corp. has expanded the ALT4532 series of pulse transformers with new types for Gigabit Ethernet and Power over Ethernet (PoE) applications. The new ALT4532P type is designed for emerging 2.5GBASE-T (2.5 Gbit/sec) and 5GBASE-T (5 Gbit/sec) LAN applications as well as 1000BASE-T (1 Gbit/sec) applications with 600-mA PoE. The new ALT4532H type is compatible […]