Power management – The point of view of Anil Telikepalli, business director, industrial power, power solutions business unit, Maxim Integrated, San José, CA/USA

Pubblicato il 18 luglio 2013

Power management continues to be a growing market with energy efficiency driving innovation both in low power battery-operated and portable equipment as well as industrial and communications infrastructure. In particular, despite the macroeconomic concerns in Europe, the market is still expected to grow over 6% *).

Maxim Integrated continues to be a strategic partner to OEMs trying to transform value to their end customers. In the consumer space, we have delivered massive integration to address the insatiable appetite of OEMs to add more and more functionality while keeping energy efficiency high. Examples include integration of sensors, RF, protection, and battery management with intelligent voltage regulators. We see some parallels in integration in the automotive market as well.

In the industrial/communications infrastructure area, Maxim has enabled OEMs to reduce costs through improvements in energy efficiency. We have introduced synchronous rectification for high voltage 60V regulators for the first time in the market, delivering 5-10% better efficiency than what was available. This allows customers to

  1. Reduce opex and carbon footprint of factory operators – saving millions of Euros over 10 years
  2. Add more intelligence in a compact equipment within the power budget
  3. Expand into cost sensitive emerging markets with scalable equipment

In the Communications market, Maxim Integrated is developing analog and digital control power management ICs with intelligence to handle dynamic load balancing. Our auto-tuned digital POLs and system managers enable high current applications in base stations, routers, and data centers to be highly energy efficient.

Maxim’s core strength is its people – be it in developing innovative IP, new process technologies, or servicing customers. While there are competitors in each of the markets, Maxim has a unique advantage in that we service multiple end markets and have the ability to bring learning from one market to another. We have built organizations that are agile and local to every market/geography. We want to learn the greatest challenges our customers face in servicing their customers and provide solutions to them – this is what sets Maxim apart from others and is reflected in our growth and customer adoption.

*) 5 year CAGR of over 6% starting CY12, according to IHS iSuppli

The italian version on EONews 565-June 2013

Edited by the editorial staff



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