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Podcast: Engineering Matters
Episode: #283 Power, without the power brick: Engineering Matters Awards 2024 Net Zero Gold Champion AmberSemi
Description: In every home, ancient technologies lurk, threatening fire and ruin. While many devices—lights, TVs, and hard drives, for example—have adopted solid state technologies, power bricks still use ageing electromechanical systems.
AmberSemi’s AC Direct DC Enabler is a fabless semiconductor system that replaces these bricks. At home, that means smaller, safer ways of connecting DC devices to AC main power. But the technology could also benefit industrial users and data centres. In factories, low power controls and high power motors can now be safely managed from one connection; in data centres, cascading circuit failures can be pre...