Infineon's power ICs enables green computing designs by Super Micro Computer

Massive growth of datacenters is forecasted in the next few years, and they consume lot of power and produce lot of heat. To tell you how big is the size of data estimated to be generated in the near future: US International Trade Commission finds 175 zettabytes of data is expected to be reached by year 2025. Presently around 8,000 data centers process, store and network these huge volumes of data. To ensure the objective of green computing where the power consumption is reduced as much as possible and increase power conversion efficiency to highest level, power supplies used in data-center/server computers are designed by selecting semiconductor components supporting high efficiency and very less heat generation. Super Micro Computer has selected semiconductor ICs from Infineon Technologies AG for designing power systems for server/datacentre computers. “When developing our green computing platforms, we choose key vendors that share our focus on energy efficiency to reduce power consumption,” said Manhtien Phan, Vice President, Server Technology, Supermicro. “With Supermicro solutionsand Infineon technologies, you can decrease system power consumption, which lowers overall data center power utilization, minimizing impactto the environment.” “Data center cooling is responsible for a large portion of energy consumption. Our energy-efficient TDA21490 and TDA215...