Author: Hordon Kim

Hordon Kim is an international editor at Power Electronics Magazine. He covers global news and events in English and runs a consulting agency in Korea.

[Tech Innovation] Yielding 99.9% pure graphite from used lithium-ion batteries

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Ascend Elements, a vertically integrated lithium-ion battery recycling and engineered materials company and Koura , an Orbia business and one of the world’s largest producers of fluoroproducts and technologies, announced the launch of a proprietary process technology yielding battery-grade graphite material from spent lithium-ion

Aspinity redefines always-on power efficiency with industry-first analog machine learning chip

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Aspinity launched the first member of its analogML family, the AML100, which is the industry’s first and only tiny machine learning (ML) solution operating completely within the analog domain. As such, the AML100 reduces always-on system power by 95%, allowing manufacturers to dramatically extend the battery life

EPC collaborates with MPS to develop 2kW, 48V/14V, regulated output voltage, DC-DC reference design board for more efficient, smaller, faster, bidirectional converters

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EPC announced the availability of the EPC9165, a 2 kW, two-phase 48 V – 14 V bidirectional converter that operates with 97% peak efficiency in a small footprint. This solution is ideal for high-density and high-power 48 V battery packs such as those required

Orca Systems announces world’s first fully integrated SoC solution for direct-to-satellite IoT connectivity

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Orca Systems, a fabless semiconductor company delivering groundbreaking digital RF technology,  announced its first wireless system-on-chip (SoC) solution for the satellite Internet of Things (IoT), the ORC3990. The company, which focuses on cost-effective, low-power wireless solutions for IoT applications, designed and developed