About Power Integrations
Power Integrations designs high-voltage integrated circuits for power conversion, the step that turns mains electricity into the lower, steady voltages electronic devices need. Its range includes gallium nitride (GaN) transistors, a material that switches faster and wastes less heat than silicon, along with converter ICs and IGBT gate drivers, which control large power switches. It does not build processors itself, but its parts supply power to computing and consumer equipment. The company was founded in 1988 and is based in San Jose, California.
Power Integrations was founded in 1988 and is based in San Jose, California, United States. It is listed under Custom Silicon, ASICs. Its shares trade as POWI on NASDAQ.
Compute Technologies
- Power ICs
- AC-DC Converters
What Power Integrations works on
Custom Silicon
Custom silicon means a company designs its own chips for its own products or data centers instead of buying standard parts. The chip is made by a foundry such as TSMC, but the design belongs to the customer.
ASICs
An ASIC, or application-specific integrated circuit, is a chip designed to do one job or a narrow set of jobs. Its circuits are fixed when the chip is made. A CPU can run any program; an ASIC does what it was designed for and nothing else.
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