This Week in PowerBites: Top Tech Trends, Hot Products, and More at APEC 2025
What you’ll learn:
- Wide-bandgap devices continue to mature rapidly, with many specialized GaN and SiC products emerging that address the specific requirements of various application segments.
- Innovative power conversion and motor-driver architectures promise to deliver higher efficiencies at lower price points.
- As IC vendors compete for a share of the growing the EV market, they’re offering highly integrated software/hardware reference designs that reduce end-user development cost.
There were plenty of new products at APEC this year. Below are some of the many standouts at the show. Several disruptive discoveries were hiding in plain sight at APEC 2025 as well.
Disruptive Discoveries Hiding in Plain Sight at APEC 2025
As usual, the IEEE's APEC 2025 power tech conference kept the Electronic Design staff hustling as we did our best to keep up with the tsunami of innovative products and technologies that made their debut at the four-day event. Among the most surprising developments we had the privilege of covering were from Ferric and Menlo Microsystems, a pair of relatively small companies that may make an outsized impact on the future of power design.
APEC 2025 ProductBites
APEC 2025 expanded the power technology universe with an immense array of evolutionary and revolutionary new products. APEC ProductBites brings you a sampling of some of our editors’ most interesting sightings.
Power Conversion
Electrified Transport Solutions
Power Devices
Power Management
More from APEC 2025
About the Author
Lee Goldberg
Contributing Editor
Lee Goldberg is a self-identified “Recovering Engineer,” Maker/Hacker, Green-Tech Maven, Aviator, Gadfly, and Geek Dad. He spent the first 18 years of his career helping design microprocessors, embedded systems, renewable energy applications, and the occasional interplanetary spacecraft. After trading his ‘scope and soldering iron for a keyboard and a second career as a tech journalist, he’s spent the next two decades at several print and online engineering publications.
Lee’s current focus is power electronics, especially the technologies involved with energy efficiency, energy management, and renewable energy. This dovetails with his coverage of sustainable technologies and various environmental and social issues within the engineering community that he began in 1996. Lee also covers 3D printers, open-source hardware, and other Maker/Hacker technologies.
Lee holds a BSEE in Electrical Engineering from Thomas Edison College, and participated in a colloquium on technology, society, and the environment at Goddard College’s Institute for Social Ecology. His book, “Green Electronics/Green Bottom Line - A Commonsense Guide To Environmentally Responsible Engineering and Management,” was published by Newnes Press.
Lee, his wife Catherine, and his daughter Anwyn currently reside in the outskirts of Princeton N.J., where they masquerade as a typical suburban family.
Lee also writes the regular PowerBites series.