2025 PowerBest Award Winners: Power Device, Conversion, and Controller Products

Electronic Design's Lee Goldberg chronicles a year of powerful innovations with some of 2025's most notable developments in power devices, power conversion, and power management, plus a few surprises.
Feb. 5, 2026

What you'll learn:

  • Power devices continue to evolve rapidly as SiC and GaN technologies become more efficient, integrated, and cost-effective.
  • Meanwhile, steady improvements in MOSFET structures and processes enable moderately priced silicon devices to deliver performance that was only available from wide-bandgap products a few years earlier.
  • The quest for ever-higher power densities has encouraged the rise of breathtaking levels of active/passive device integration and cool-running packaging technology.
  • Advanced packaging technologies are combining with novel power-conversion architectures to offer extremely energy- and cost-efficient products for EVs, renewable power generation, and storage on other essential building blocks of the growing green economy.
  • 2025 also saw the emergence of several game-changing products, made possible by advances in materials and manufacturing, which don’t fit into traditional categories.

2025 was another remarkably busy year for the power sector, as manufacturers raced to create the products needed to support the rapidly growing “electrified economy.” Feeding power-hungry mega-data centers occupied the spotlight. But the evolving demands of other power-centric applications in the automotive, industrial, and consumer sectors drove new generations of smarter, more efficient, and more highly integrated power-management and conversion products.

Meanwhile, a new wave of products based on innovative power and battery technologies are contributing to the compelling economics of wind, solar, and other renewables. It’s made them the dominant source of new generating capacity in nearly every nation.

To make sure we cover as wide a slice of the power product spectrum as possible, we've spread the awards across three broad, but distinct product categories, as well as a catch-all category of products that don't fit into our regular categories:

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powerdevices
The year 2025 produced a bumper crop of new SiC-, GaN-, and silicon-based power transistors, modules, and other basic building blocks for more robust, efficient, and versatile...
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powercontrollersandmanagement
Higher levels of integration and ingenious power-conversion architectures are enabling simpler, denser, more efficient solutions for EVs, data centers, and other critical applications...
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powercontrollers
A wide of array of advanced controllers arrived in 2025, marked by high integration and enhanced intelligence in solutions involving USB and other technologies.
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powerbeststoocool
Old is new again as tiny mechanical contactors outperform solid-state switches, monolithic inductors for power conversion, and powering Nixie tube displays.

Electronic Design offers our sincere congratulations to the 2025 year's PowerBest award winners — and our deep thanks to the many other worthy candidates who made the selection process so challenging!

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

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