Ideal Power Announces Power Rating Increase for its Discrete B-TRAN® Product
Ideal Power (Nasdaq: IPWR) announced a significant upgrade to its discrete B-TRAN® semiconductor power switch, increasing its power rating by 50% from 50 amps to 75 amps. The enhancement, validated through extensive internal and external testing, allows the product to operate at up to 150 amps continuously, maintaining a substantial design margin.
The improved rating enables customers to achieve higher system power with the same device count or maintain current power levels with fewer devices, leading to enhanced power density and potentially smaller product footprints. The company expects to benefit from premium pricing while offering customers net cost savings through reduced part counts.
Additionally, Ideal Power plans to announce an increased power rating for its SymCool® power module, which uses the same B-TRAN® dies, later in 2025.
Ideal Power (Nasdaq: IPWR) ha annunciato un importante aggiornamento del proprio interruttore di potenza a semiconduttore discreto B-TRAN®, aumentando la potenza nominale dal 50 A a 75 A, con un incremento del 50%. Il miglioramento, validato attraverso ampi test interni ed esterni, consente al prodotto di operare fino a 150 A in continuo, mantenendo una notevole fascia di progettazione.
La nuova valutazione consente ai clienti di ottenere una potenza di sistema più elevata con lo stesso numero di dispositivi oppure di mantenere i livelli attuali con meno dispositivi, con un incremento della densità di potenza e potenzialmente una minore impronta del prodotto. L’azienda prevede di beneficiare di prezzi premium offrendo al contempo risparmi netti sui costi grazie a una riduzione del numero di parti.
Inoltre, Ideal Power intende annunciare in seguito nel 2025 un aumento della potenza nominale per il modulo di potenza SymCool®, che utilizza gli stessi die B-TRAN®.
Ideal Power (Nasdaq: IPWR) anunció una mejora importante de su conmutador de potencia de silicio discreto B-TRAN®, elevando su clasificación de potencia del 50 A a 75 A, un aumento del 50%. La mejora, validada mediante pruebas internas y externas exhaustivas, permite que el producto funcione hasta 150 A en continuo, manteniendo un margen de diseño considerable.
La clasificación mejorada permite a los clientes lograr mayor potencia del sistema con el mismo número de dispositivos o mantener los niveles de potencia actuales con menos dispositivos, lo que conlleva una mayor densidad de potencia y, potencialmente, una huella de producto más pequeña. La empresa espera beneficiarse de precios premium, mientras ofrece a los clientes ahorros netos gracias a la reducción de la cantidad de piezas.
Además, Ideal Power planea anunciar más adelante en 2025 un aumento de la clasificación de potencia para su módulo de potencia SymCool®, que utiliza los mismos dies B-TRAN®.
Ideal Power (나스닥: IPWR)는 디스크리트 B-TRAN® 반도체 파워 스위치에 대한 중요한 업그레이드를 발표했습니다. 정격 전력을 50A에서 75A로 50% 상승시켰으며, 외부 및 내부 광범위한 테스트를 통해 검증되었습니다. 이 개선으로 제품은 연속으로 최대 150A까지 작동할 수 있으며 설계 여유를 크게 유지합니다.
향상된 등급은 동일한 수의 소자에서 더 높은 시스템 전력을 달성하거나 더 적은 소자로 현재 전력 수준을 유지할 수 있게 해 전력 밀도를 높이고 잠재적으로 더 작은 제품 외관을 가능하게 합니다. 회사는 프리미엄 가격 책정을 통해 이익을 얻고 부품 수 감소로 고객에게 순 비용 절감을 제공할 수 있을 것으로 기대합니다.
또한 Ideal Power는 같은 B-TRAN® 다이를 사용하는 SymCool® 파워 모듈의 정격 전력을 2025년 말에 증가시킬 계획이라고 밝혔습니다.
Ideal Power (Nasdaq : IPWR) a annoncé une amélioration significative de son commutateur de puissance à semi-conducteurs discret B-TRAN®, faisant passer sa puissance nominale de 50 A à 75 A, soit une hausse de 50 %. Cette amélioration, validée par des tests internes et externes, permet au produit de fonctionner jusqu’à 150 A en continu, tout en conservant une marge de conception substantielle.
Cette augmentation de la capacité permet aux clients d’obtenir une puissance système plus élevée avec le même nombre de composants ou de maintenir les niveaux actuels avec moins de composants, ce qui accroît la densité de puissance et peut conduire à une empreinte produit plus compacte. L’entreprise prévoit de tirer parti de prix premium tout en offrant des économies nettes grâce à une réduction du nombre de pièces.
De plus, Ideal Power prévoit d’annoncer, plus tard en 2025, une augmentation de la puissance nominale pour son module SymCool® qui utilise les mêmes dies B-TRAN®.
Ideal Power (Nasdaq: IPWR) hat eine signifikante Aufwertung seines diskreten B-TRAN®-Halbleiter-Leistungsschalters angekündigt und die Leistungsbewertung von 50 A auf 75 A erhöht, eine Steigerung von 50 %. Die Verbesserung, durch umfangreiche interne und externe Tests validiert, ermöglicht dem Produkt, kontinuierlich bis zu 150 A zu betreiben, wobei eine erhebliche Designreserve erhalten bleibt.
Die verbesserte Nennleistung ermöglicht es Kunden, mit derselben Anzahl Bauteile eine höhere Systemleistung zu erreichen oder bei gleicher Leistung weniger Bauteile zu verwenden, was zu einer höheren Leistungsdichte führt und potenziell eine kleinere Produktabmessung ermöglicht. Das Unternehmen erwartet, von Premium-Preisgestaltung zu profitieren, während Kunden Netto-Kosteneinsparungen durch eine Reduzierung der Teileanzahl erhalten.
Zusätzlich plant Ideal Power, im Laufe des Jahres 2025 eine erhöhte Leistungsbewertung für sein SymCool®-Leistungsmodul bekanntzugeben, das dieselben B-TRAN®-Dies verwendet.
Ideal Power (Nasdaq: IPWR) أعلنت عن ترقية كبيرة لدايئ محول الطاقة B-TRAN® المنفصل، بزيادة تصنيف قوته من 50 أمبير إلى 75 أمبير، بزيادة قدرها 50%. تم التحقق من التحسين من خلال اختبارات داخلية وخارجية واسعة النطاق، مما يتيح للمنتج العمل حتى 150 أمبير بشكل مستمر مع الحفاظ على هامش تصميم كبير.
يمكن للتقييم المحسن أن يمكّن العملاء من تحقيق قدرة نظام أعلى مع نفس عدد الأجهزة أو الحفاظ على مستويات القدرة الحالية مع استخدام عدد أقل من الأجهزة، مما يؤدي إلى زيادة كثافة الطاقة وربما تقليل حجم المنتج. تتوقع الشركة الاستفادة من تسعير مميز مع توفير وفورات صافية للعملاء من خلال تقليل عدد القطع.
بالإضافة إلى ذلك، تخطط Ideal Power للإعلان عن زيادة في تصنيف الطاقة للوحدة SymCool® التي تستخدم نفس شرائح B-TRAN® في وقت لاحق من عام 2025.
Ideal Power（纳斯达克：IPWR） 宣布对其离散 B-TRAN® 半导体功率开关进行了重大升级，将额定功率从 50 A 提升至 75 A，提升幅度为 50%。这一改进通过大量内部和外部测试得到验证，使该产品在连续工作时最高可达 150 A，同时保留了可观的设计裕度。
改进后的额定值使客户能够在相同数量的器件下实现更高的系统功率，或在保持当前功率水平的同时使用更少的器件，从而提高功率密度并可能缩小产品体积。公司预计将通过高价位实现利润，同时通过减少部件数量为客户带来净成本节省。
此外，Ideal Power 计划在 2025 年晚些时候宣布，同样使用 B-TRAN® 芯片的 SymCool® 功率模块的额定功率提升。
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Ideal Power's 50% B-TRAN rating increase enables better power density for customers while commanding premium pricing.
Ideal Power's announcement of a 50% increase in their B-TRAN® power rating from 50 amps to 75 amps represents a significant technical achievement with tangible commercial benefits. This bidirectional semiconductor switch can now handle substantially higher current without any physical modifications to the product or packaging - a testament to conservative initial specifications and robust engineering margins.
The increased rating creates a dual-benefit scenario: OEMs can either achieve higher system power with the same number of components or maintain current power levels while reducing component count. Both approaches yield improved power density, potentially smaller physical footprints, and reduced system complexity. For applications like solid-state circuit breakers and EV contactors, these advantages translate directly to competitive differentiation.
From a business perspective, Ideal Power gains pricing leverage for these higher-rated components while simultaneously offering customers net cost savings through reduced part counts. The company has validated this increased rating through both internal and external testing, with headroom still available - the components reportedly function continuously at up to 150 amps during testing.
With a planned rating increase for their SymCool® power module using the same B-TRAN® dies coming later this year, Ideal Power is strategically enhancing its product lineup for key growth markets in electric vehicle infrastructure and advanced power control systems.
"Raising the current rating to 75 amps enables customers to provide higher system power for their products with the same device count or hold system power constant while reducing the required number of devices. This results in improved power density and potentially a smaller footprint for OEM products incorporating B-TRAN®," said Dan Brdar, President and Chief Executive Officer of Ideal Power. "The Company will benefit from a pricing premium associated with a higher rated product while current and prospective customers will share in this benefit due to the reduced part count to meet a given power rating and resultant net cost savings for their OEM products."
The increase in the published power rating of the discrete B-TRAN® product is supported by extensive testing conducted by both the Company and external testing firms. While Ideal Power officially published an increased power rating of 75 amps for the discrete B-TRAN® product, the product still maintains a significant design margin as it has been tested on a long-term, continuous basis at up to 150 amps. The increased power rating is solely the result of the extensive testing conducted to date as no changes were made to the product or packaging to facilitate the higher rating.
Ideal Power's SymCool® power module uses the same B-TRAN® dies as the discrete product and an increase to the SymCool® power rating is scheduled to be announced later this year, with the updated datasheet to be posted to the Company's website at that time. Both the discrete B-TRAN® product and the SymCool® power module target solid-state circuit breaker and EV contactor applications.
About Ideal Power Inc.
Ideal Power (NASDAQ: IPWR) is the developer and innovative provider of its broadly patented bidirectional semiconductor power switch, creating highly efficient and ecofriendly energy control solutions for electric vehicle, electric vehicle charging, renewable energy, energy storage, UPS/data center, solid-state circuit breaker and other industrial and military applications. The Company is focused on its patented Bidirectional, Bipolar Junction Transistor (B-TRAN®) semiconductor technology. B-TRAN® is a unique double-sided bidirectional AC switch that delivers substantial performance improvements over today's conventional power semiconductors. Ideal Power's B-TRAN® can reduce conduction and switching losses, complexity of thermal management and operating cost in AC power switching and control circuitry. For more information, visit the Company's website at www.IdealPower.com, on LinkedIn, on Twitter, and on Facebook.
Safe Harbor Statement
All statements in this release that are not based on historical fact are "forward-looking statements" within the meaning of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995 and the provisions of Section 27A of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, and Section 21E of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended. While Ideal Power's management has based any forward-looking statements included in this release on its current expectations, the information on which such expectations were based may change. Such forward-looking statements include, but are not limited to, statements regarding the planned increase in the power rating of our SymCool® power module. These forward-looking statements rely on a number of assumptions concerning future events and are subject to a number of risks, uncertainties and other factors, many of which are outside of our control that could cause actual results to materially differ from such statements. Such risks, uncertainties, and other factors include, but are not limited to, the success of our B-TRAN® technology, including whether the patents for our technology provide adequate protection and whether we can be successful in maintaining, enforcing and defending our patents, our inability to predict with precision or certainty the pace and timing of development and commercialization of our B-TRAN® technology, the rate and degree of market acceptance for our B-TRAN®, the impact of global health pandemics on our business, supply chain disruptions, and the expected performance of future products incorporating our B-TRAN®, and uncertainties set forth in our quarterly, annual and other reports filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission. Furthermore, we operate in a highly competitive and rapidly changing environment where new and unanticipated risks may arise. Accordingly, investors should not place any reliance on forward-looking statements as a prediction of actual results. We disclaim any intention to, and undertake no obligation to, update or revise forward-looking statements, except as required by applicable law.
Ideal Power Investor Relations Contact
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Darrow Associates Investor Relations
jchristensen@darrowir.com
703-297-6917
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