Product category:
Power Supply ICs and Controllers
News Release from: Semikron
Edited by the Electronicstalk Editorial
Team on 23 October 2007
Power modules to target appliance market
Alliance to combine expertise to offer power modules based on Semikron's MiniSKiiP IGBT platform.
Semikron International is working with LS Industrial Systems (LSIS) of Korea, formerly LG Industrial Systems, to develop and deliver power electronic solutions for the industrial drives and consumer market The two companies have signed a memorandum of understanding combining their expertise to offer LSIS integrated power modules based on Semikron's MiniSKiiP IGBT platform
This article was originally published on Electronicstalk on 12 Oct 2004 at 8.00am (UK)
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The co-operation creates new opportunities for both companies.
LSIS will be adapting the Semikron integrated power modules with pressure contact technology, to be promoted to the industrial and appliance market.
The MiniSKiiP power module platform will allow for faster development and lower production costs.
Semikron will be adapting the control technologies of LSIS to develop application-specific systems.
The new MiniSKiiP modules from LSIS and Semikron are set to address the rapidly growing demand for more integrated high-power platforms in a wide range of applications, including LCD and plasma display panels.
"Making these integrated modules enables us to compete in the power electronics market and thereby establishing our position in the consumer industry", says Chung-Man Kim, Vice Chairman and CEO at LS Industrial Systems.
"We believe combining our knowledge in power electronic modules and controller technologies will strengthen both companies' positions in the world power electronics market in the future", says Peter Frey, General Manager at Semikron International".
"This will be the start of a long-term relationship", he concluded.
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