This Week in PowerBites

Electronic Design’s intrepid editors returned from the IEEE’s APEC 2025 conference with a heaping helping of the most innovative products, disruptive technologies, and important...

This week’s PowerBites features two advances in battery technology plus a look at how electric marine propulsion is changing the shipping industry. And don’t forget to check out...

This edition of PowerBites presents insights on how competition continues to drive growth in the cleantech sector and a motor-centric sampler of the latest power-related products...

Electronic Design's Lee Goldberg chronicles a year of remarkable advances in power, power-conversion and power-management ICs, and packaging technology with a baker’s dozen of...

Innovations in cool-running packaging technologies and embedded passive networks are enabling power devices to run at higher power densities and frequencies.

Higher levels of integration and ingenious power-conversion architectures are enabling simpler, denser, more efficient solutions for EVs, data centers, and other critical applications...

SiC and GaN advances used improved device structures and higher levels of integration to support higher voltages and power densities while reducing solution cost. Meanwhile, silicon...

This edition of PowerBites is packed with surprises, including technologies that should lead to smaller, faster, cooler-running power devices.

Will a new breed of thin-film amorphous solar cells deliver double the efficiency at half the cost of their silicon-based competitors? Can a new lifecycle analysis software platform...

Innovative reference designs help streamline the development cycles of everything from USB PD products to high-efficiency motor drives. Meanwhile, GM is the first North American...

This edition of PowerBites reports on new reference designs for EV charging stations and USB-C supplies, smarter power protection devices, and a high-end eBike that’s the model...

Mixed-signal fever hits the power controller community while power densities reach new highs, and magnetic packaging helps shrink power-module size. Plus, another round of open...

Could a Linux-based open-source platform for EV charging stations help accelerate deployment while helping cure the industry's pesky interoperability problems?

This week's PowerBites looks at advances occurring in less-obvious regions of the power sector, plus surprising news about the quiet boom occurring in grid-scale energy storage...

PowerBites offers insights on two new rare-earth-free electric-motor architectures, the latest power components, and news that California's grid is now spending significant periods...

This edition of PowerBites brings you new developments in hybrid-electric aircraft and a V2G standard, MOSFET moves, silicon and SiC advances, plus more.

A bumper crop of automotive power components, an innovative approach to electric motor recycling, and some surprising news about EV sales await you in this issue of PowerBites...

Have SiC power devices (finally) become just as simple to use as their silicon counterparts? Could nickel-rich cathodes provide a cost-effective boost to Li-ion battery life and...

Will hybrid-electric aircraft give airlines a practical low-carbon alternative to today's turboprops? Will the United Kingdom's £541 million gamble to gain domestic EV battery...

Can GaN really support 1250-V applications? Could hydrolysis of seawater become a practical source of hydrogen? And what the heck is a nomogram? Check out this edition of PowerBites...

Will grid-forming inverters be the game changer for sustainable power grids? What's new in USB-C? Can you really design a high-efficiency, printed BLDC motor/controller system...

Are IGBTs still relevant? Two new IGBT families prove that this mature technology still has room for innovation. And what's going on with America's "moonshot" program to create...

Will rising EV demand trigger a global copper shortage? Can mixed-signal Spice accelerate power product development and still tame those pesky sand worms? Tune in to this month...

STMicro teams with Airbus to advance electric aviation, two wireless power leaders combine forces, plus a look at some of the latest power products.

In this issue of PowerBites, we look at two developments that make designing with GaN easier, near-production-ready single-chip ac direct dc power-delivery tech, and why the DoE...

If Formula E electric racecars are nearly silent, and don't emit heady exhaust fumes, can they be as exciting as their fossil-fueled F1 counterparts? Can EV batteries really enjoy...

This week's lineup includes tutorials on magnetics design and soft-switch power conversion, a highly versatile BMS, and rugged-self-healing dc link capacitors. And don't miss ...

This week's PowerBites includes a plethora of high-octane power products, plus news of a U.S.-based factory scheduled to begin making advanced Li-ion cells at gigawatt-scale by...

How do you cover a technical revolution singlehandedly, especially one that's rapidly changing the world? ED's Lee Goldberg did it by creating PowerBites, a quirky blog that brings...

Electronic Design serves up the latest products, news, rumors, and innuendo making waves in the power-design community.