TI leads the industry in providing digital and analog solutions with low power consumption and greater energy efficiency. These innovations enable our customers to meet and exceed stringent energy guidelines and create new, increasingly complex applications, such as multi-function cell phones with long battery life spans and energy-efficient data center computer servers.

TI’s digital signal controllers and green-mode power supply controllers enable high-definition televisions (HDTVs) and other electronics to achieve energy efficiency levels as high as 90 percent. Our microcontrollers also address efficiency by reducing energy loss in standby mode. It is estimated that 5 percent of the electricity used by U.S. homes goes to objects that absorb and lose energy in standby mode, such as HDTVs and set-top boxes. That estimate jumps to 12 percent in Japan – equivalent to the output of 18 U.S. power generation stations. TI’s microcontroller and analog technologies enable products that consume as little as 500 nanoamps of electricity in standby mode, consuming less power than a watch battery.

Our “green” power management chips and digital power technologies improve the reliability of power supplies by enabling our customers to design systems that lose less energy from the power source to the product or device. These savings result in reduced cooling requirements, extending life spans, improving reliability through failure prediction and enabling more precise performance. As a result, TI energyefficient enabling technologies products are now used in an array of applications, including server farms, industrial universal power supplies, alternative energy sources, consumer electronics like HDTVs and laptops as well as hybrid and solar-powered vehicles.

TI’s motor control technologies, like digital signal controllers and analog components, enable customers to use smaller, more efficient motors. This, in turn, lowers voltages and produces less heat so that systems can achieve a longer life and higher reliability. In the U.S., where goods such as refrigerators consume almost 10 percent of the world’s electrical power, it is increasingly important that appliances operate more efficiently.

Using TI’s digital power technology, designers of high-end servers and telecom infrastructure systems can achieve greater power efficiency, monitoring and control. The reduced component count and added intelligence enhances reliability – an important criterion of power design – and enables features like failure prediction.

True green energy – clean and renewable power sources like wind and solar – also benefit from TI’s experience in power management. For example, TI products are used among the key electronics solar power systems, including inverters, which convert electricity from the panels into a usable household voltage. These high-performance inverters enable maximum system efficiency during all weather conditions, including cloudy days.