Power chips will sell like hotcakes
AFTER SUFFERING a 14 per cent drop this year, power chips are set to make a recovery and grow by 10 per cent from next year.
The augury division of IMS Research claims that the world market for power management and driver ICs will recover strongly in 2010.
It thinks that power over ethernet (PoE) ICs, integrated power stages, including both non-standard and Intel standard driver metal oxide semiconductors (DrMOS), and power factor correction (PFC) ICs will do particularly well.
The report said that 2009 has been a tough year for many semiconductor manufacturers, particularly during the first half.
However the power IC market managed to do a little better than some other parts of the chip market. PoE and PFC controllers are even forecast to grow in 2009.
Apparently everyone wants to buy gear that is more energy efficient and this will require complex, and therefore more expensive, power management. Thus power management chips are expected to find their way into flat-panel TVs and netbooks.
The market for power ICs in merchant power supplies will also recover in 2010 and grow strongly with demand from new applications such as LED lighting, IMS Research said.
The big winner is likely to be Texas Instruments, which is the largest supplier of power management and driver ICs. µ
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Typically sissy gay-stuff. Worried about power control for a freakin' TV or cell phone, when just starting a single 480VAC industrial motor will lose more electricity than a year's use of a TV.
I open the article hoping to read about advancements in REAL power control chips, only to find out that all the little sissy gaybois are quivering about power usage in TVs and cell phones, fercrissakes! Get a life, homos.
The only thing I have done is shorthand and that uis dying as the BIT and BYTES are taking over and I have the small Chinese twin sim cards phone that at times packs up.
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Firozali A.Mulla
Actually, the energy used to power up a single 480VDC motor does not even come remotely close to what a TV will use in a year. I mean, come on, just imagine how that motor would need to look like if you have to pull away several thousand Watts of heat within seconds.
Additionally, the fuses usually only take 10 to 20 times the normal operating current for a few seconds until they blow. So the motor couldn't even use that much energy even if it wanted to.
Nvidia aanounced retrenchment in chipset engineering, in DMI style, both Intel & AMD. DMI Might mean digital Media Interface, as in HDMI high defination & then ALL Digital took to Life. Now you get 1080P & Audio Digital & Video digital or ALL digital media. Maybe Nvidia don't like DMI, Can SomeOne Explain where nvidia DMI License Floated Off.
Whats Nvidian to do? GX300 Wait & Watch, When Its Over, Its Really Over....
drashek
It´s been more than a decade that power concerned people has been using power inverters to star eletric motors. They reduce greatly the peak current at start.
These also provide accurate control of speed.
It´s also an overstatement that an electric motor consume the same energy at stast as a TV for a hole year, even if you are talking about megawatt class one. But let´s keep in mind that while these motors are counted in the thousands, TV sets are in the hundreads of millions. So it´s really more important to save power on TVs and domestic appliances, yhat alone consumes little power but on the whole, suck quite a bit of juice.