| What an Event!
In a response to our post on LinkedIn where we thanked all the contributors to Bodo’s Wide Bandgap Event one person commented “Great format, and I loved the 15-minute sessions – I felt I’d been hit with a fire-hose of WBG knowledge.” I personally wouldn’t have been able to express it in a more precise way. So, I think that the entire team of Bodo’s Power Systems can surely say “Mission Accomplished”.
When I moderated the SiC session on day #2 at our WBG event, I quoted Guy Moxey (Wolfspeed), who said the following at the panel discussion on day #1: “Use SiC as a weapon with an incredible value for money,” because I think he is right. He talked about the price decline of a specific SiC component which cost $85 ten years ago, which we can now buy in volumes for $3.50. However, I’d like to extend this to GaN as well because considering the entire system and lifetime cost of both, SiC and GaN designs, these technologies are able to provide “an incredible value for money”. Aly Mashaly (Rohm) told us that “in 2030 all the servers in the world will consume six times the entire power consumption of Germany”. Considering that Germany has climbed to the 3rd place in the global GDP rankings of national economies (after the US and China) in 2024 this is an almost incredible amount of power consumption for a single application class. This and other data and details discussed clearly demonstrates how important it is to develop real energy-saving systems.
During Bodo’s WBG Event we saw so many excellent approaches making the best out of the huge energy demand, and we will continue to bring you many inspiring power solutions – hopefully highly efficient solutions – in the twelve magazines we have planned for 2025. Bodo and I are both electrical engineers, but we are unable to write so many in-depth power stories per year nor can we present 40 technical WGB papers in a single day, nor can we explain products in the tabletop exhibition. Therefore, we really appreciate your help and support for writing stories, for presenting at our event and for inspiring us at trade shows and conferences. This is why we say thank you very much for all of your support. Let’s continue to co-operate in a fruitful way in 2025! Keeping this in mind the entire team of Bodo’s Power Systems wishes you a healthy, inspiring, prosperous and peaceful 2025!
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My green tip of the month: Use the WBG “weapon” (or is it better we call it a “seed”?) to create highly-efficient power systems. As every percentage point increase in power efficiency counts!
Happy New Year, Alfred |