| Editorial |
| | Power-Impressions from CES
Journalists in the electronics sector should not only know what they write about, they should also know where the products are implemented and what the future market trends look like. That’s one of the reasons why I visited CES 2025, which took place in early January in Las Vegas. Summarising my trip, it was very interesting and gave me new insights into several markets. For example, at the Bosch press conference I learned that the German company is currently installing equipment in its new chip fab in Roseville/California (USA), where Bosch intends to invest another US-$ 1.9 billion. They plan to deliver silicon carbide chips from California as soon as 2026.
Furthermore, the Swedish car company Zeekr, owned by the Chinese company Geely and a sister company of Volvo and Polestar, announced that they will soon be launching “the fastest charging battery on earth” to the market, which can add 300 km of driving range within five minutes of charging. This sounds like an innovation with potential to boost e-mobility, which will increase the demand of WBG power semiconductors.
Even though CES was not specifically about power I was able to meet with several power semiconductor companies. The main topic at the event was artificial intelligence, which was really ubiquitous and in almost every application. And as powerful AI needs powerful server farms there will be an increased demand for solutions powering these AI-capable server farms. I expect that this will be a major topic at this year’s APEC conference.
As you read these lines we, in the editorial office of Bodo’s Power Systems, will already be making our preparations for the APEC conference, which is taking place March 16-20,at the Georgia World Congress Center in Atlanta, Georgia. We will be present the entire time and are looking forward to meeting interesting companies in the power sector. If you’d like to schedule a meeting, please let us know.
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Kind regards,
Alfred |