Blog

Regulatory ambition, cooling‑driven electricity demand, and the rapid electrification of transport are all reshaping expectations for power conversion, motor control, and system efficiency. This blog is a global snapshot of where we are, and what it signals for designers and OEMs going forward.

The rapid adoption of generative AI, driven by power-hungry GPUs, has pushed rack-level power demand from tens of kilowatts just a few years ago to well over 100 kilowatts today—with megawatt-per-rack designs predicted in the near future.

At the heart of Silvretta — aCentauri Solar Racing‘s solar-powered challenger car entry in the grueling 3,022-kilometer Bridgestone World Solar Challenge (BWSC) across the Australian Outback — is a power electronics circuit using PowiGaN gallium nitride (GaN) technology from Power Integrations.