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Power Supply ICs and Controllers
News Release from: Texas Instruments (April 2006-)
Edited by the Electronicstalk Editorial
Team on 14 May 2008
PSU designer to enhance power IC
portfolio
The acquisition of Commergy Technologies will allow TI to broaden its focus on improving energy efficiency in end-equipment designs.
Texas Instruments has acquired Ireland-based Commergy Technologies, a power supply reference design provider that specialises in energy efficient and compact architectures The acquisition allows TI to broaden its focus on improving energy efficiency in today's end-equipment designs, especially in the areas of AC adapters and high-power-density computing and server systems
This article was originally published on Electronicstalk on 4 Apr 2006 at 8.00am (UK)
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According to Art George, Senior Vice President for TI's High Performance analogue Division: "Adding Commergy's products and expertise in power conversion technology gives us a tremendous advantage when solving our customers' complex energy requirements and critical power design challenges".
"New acquisitions such as this continue to enhance our portfolio of analogue products that allow our customers to quickly adapt to the ever-changing computing and communications markets".
Dr George Young, Chief Executive and Technology Officer of Commergy, comments: "Combining our talent, technology and products with TI's manufacturing capabilities and power management business will give equipment designers quicker access to products that solve any energy management issue".
Commergy, based in Cork, Ireland, provides easy-to-implement standard and customised reference designs for applications in the notebook, PC, server and communications markets.
The company develops extremely high-efficiency power supply solutions, such as those for notebook adapters, that meet and exceed the latest Energy Star and Climate Savers Computing Initiative recommendations for PCs.
Commergy has expertise in several design areas, such as planar magnetics, power factor correction (PFC), power topology design, thermal management, EMC design and high-power density design.
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