Electronic Design

40-V eGaN Transistor Offers Si-Beating On-Resistance, Switching Losses

Volume production has commenced for Efficient Power Conversion’s (EPC) EPC2366, the first of its seventh-generation (Gen 7) eGaN family of power transistors. Devices produced on the new process ...
Reuters

US power use to beat record highs in 2026 and 2027 as AI use surges, EIA says

NEW YORK, March 10 (Reuters) - U.S. ‌power consumption, which hit its second straight record high in 2025, will rise further in 2026 and 2027, the Energy Information Administration (EIA) said in its ...
Scientific American

A Bill Gates–backed nuclear power plant just got cleared to start building

TerraPower, a Bill Gates–backed nuclear power start-up, received the federal green light to start building a power plant in Wyoming. The approval paves the way for the first new commercial nuclear ...
The Indianapolis Star

EPC Launches Its First Seventh-Generation (Gen 7) eGaN® Power Transistor, the 40 V EPC2366, into Mass Production

EPC’s first seventh-generation eGaN® device enters mass production, delivering up to 3× better performance than silicon MOSFETs EL SEGUNDO, CA, UNITED STATES ...
EDN

GaN transistor cuts losses and heat

EPC’s first Gen 7 eGaN power transistor, the 40-V EPC2366, delivers up to 3× better performance than equivalent silicon MOSFETs. Now entering mass production, the device features a typical R DS(ON) of ...
WFAA8

North Texas power outages: Hundreds are still without power - here's how to check the map, your status

Thousands of Texans are still without power on Tuesday morning, but power was restored to the vast majority of North Texans, according to the Oncor outage map. As of 7:30 a.m., Tuesday, Jan. 27, ...
Semiconductor Engineering

Oxides Bring Low Leakage Transistors To Leading-Edge Memories

AI workloads need to position more memory that uses less power in ever-closer proximity to computational logic. That overriding imperative is driving new memory designs and new materials exploration ...
Wall Street Journal

America’s Biggest Power Grid Operator Has an AI Problem—Too Many Data Centers

America’s AI boom is pushing the nation’s largest power-grid operator to the brink of a supply crisis. Sixty-seven million people in a 13-state region stretching from New Jersey to Kentucky get their ...
Hackaday

Identifying Fake Small-Signal Transistors

It’s rather amazing how many electronic components you can buy right now are not quite the genuine parts that they are sold as. Outside of dedicated platforms like Mouser, Digikey and LCSC you pretty ...
SiliconANGLE

MIT spinoff Vertical Semiconductor gets $11M to build more power-efficient AI chips

Vertical Semiconductor Inc. is hoping to crack the power delivery bottleneck in artificial intelligence data centers after closing on an $11 million seed funding round today. The round was led by ...
Scientific American

See How Fusion Energy Could Power the Future

Nuclear fusion promises a green and infinitely renewable supply of energy—if we can harness it. Fusion happens all the time inside the sun. But to recreate the process on Earth, we must control ...