International Rectifier has introduced the AUIRS212xS family of rugged 600V, single channel high-side driver ICs for low-, mid-, and high-voltage automotive applications including general purpose automotive drives, high-voltage actuators and fuel-efficient direct injection systems.

International Rectifier has introduced a 25V synchronous buck converter DirectFET® MOSFET chipset for point-of-load (POL) converter designs.

International Rectifier has launched the IRS233x(D) family of three-phase gate driver ICs for low-, mid-, and high-voltage motor drive applications including permanent magnet (PM) motor drives for air conditioners, washing machines, pumps and fans, and micro, mini and general purpose inverter drives.

International Rectifier has launched the IRS233x(D) family of three-phase gate driver ICs for low-, mid-, and high-voltage motor drive applications including permanent magnet (PM) motor drives for air conditioners, washing machines, pumps and fans, and micro, mini and general purpose inverter drives. The IRS233x(D) is a high-voltage, high speed power MOSFET and IGBT three-phase bridge- driver with referenced output channels to provide 200 mA/420...

International Rectifier has released the IRS260xD family of single-phase high-voltage ICs (HVICs) for motor drive applications including air conditioners, fans, pumps, micro, mini and general purpose inverter drives.

International Rectifier has expanded its portfolio of RAD-Hard Logic Level gate drive MOSFETs with the introduction of 60 V, 100 V and 250 V MOSFETs for switch mode power supplies (SMPS), satellite power distribution systems and resonant power converters in high-reliability applications.

International Rectifier has introduced a family of 30 V DirectFET MOSFETs optimized for synchronous buck converter designs for notebook computers, server CPU power, graphics, and memory voltage regulator applications.

International Rectifier has introduced a new family of 60 V and 75 V MOSFETs optimized for industrial battery applications.

International Rectifier has introduced a rugged 600 V three-phase gate driver IC for low, mid-, and high-voltage motor drive applications including Permanent Magnet (PM) motor drives for appliances, industrial drives, micro inverter drives and electric vehicle drives.

International Rectifier has expanded its SupIRBuck portfolio of versatile wide input, single output integrated point-of-load (POL) DC-DC voltage regulators with the introduction of the IR380x family for consumer embedded POL applications up to 14 amps. Size and feature set are optimized for high performance consumer applications, including set-top boxes, LCD TVs, game consoles, desktop PCs and graphics cards.

International Rectifier has expanded its portfolio of 60 V, 75 V and 100 V MOSFETs for switch mode power supplies (SMPS), uninterruptible power supplies (UPS) and industrial applications such as power tools, forklifts and other high power DC drives.

International Rectifier has announced that the Company’s Founder and Chairman, Eric Lidow, will retire from his position as Chairman and as a member of the Board of Directors effective on May 1, 2008. Mr. Lidow had served as the Company’s Chief Executive Officer until 1995, after which time he assumed the position of Chairman.

International Rectifier’s IR3502 XPhase control IC provides overall system control and interfaces with any number of IR’s XPhase phase ICs, each driving and monitoring a single phase. The IR3502’s key features include 0.5 percent overall system set point accuracy and daisy-chain digital phase timing for accurate phase interleaving without the need for external components. Combined with the IR3507 phase IC, the IR3502 and IR3507 chipset prov...

International Rectifier has introduced the iP2005A, a fully optimized power stage solution for high current synchronous buck multi-phase converters used in gaming, computing and communications applications. It is 40 percent smaller in size compared to the previous generation device while its efficient operation up to 1.5MHz allows designers to further reduce board space by minimizing the value of output capacitors and inductors.

International Rectifier has launched a family of 600V insulated gate bipolar transistors (IGBTs) that reduces power dissipation by up to 30 percent in uninterruptible power supply (UPS) and solar inverter applications up to 3 kW. The new application-specific devices use IR’s latest-generation field stop trench technology to reduce conduction and switching losses, and are optimized for switching at 20 kHz with low short circuit requirements, ena...

International Rectifier has introduced the versatile IR3721 output power monitor IC for low-voltage DC-DC converters used in notebook, desktop computers, and energy-efficient server applications. The IR3721 utilizes IR’s patent-pending TruePower technology to accurately capture highly dynamic power information with 2.5 percent accuracy at 65°C.

International Rectifier has introduced the IR3514 and IR3507 XPhase chipset for AMD parallel and serial VID (PVID and SVID) processors. The IR3514 control IC enables designers to migrate from AMD processors requiring a parallel VID to SVID processors without the need to change the motherboard. Combined with the IR3507 phase IC, the IR3514 provides Power Saving Interface (PSI) capability to turn phases(N-1) on or off depending on CPU load requirem...

International Rectifier has announced the election, effective March 1, 2008, of Oleg Khaykin as President and Chief Executive Officer, succeeding Donald Dancer, who has served as acting Chief Executive Officer since August 30, 2007.

International Rectifier has introduced the Mx series triple output DC-DC power converter design platform for space applications powering specific RF communication satellite applications. The Mx series offers industry-leading space ruggedness and low noise power performance in an open board assembly construction.

International Rectifier has introduced the IRS26302D protected 600V three-phase gate driver IC with ground fault protection. The IC has a seventh gate drive channel for a power factor correction (PFC) switch or inverter brake, making it well-suited to medium power appliance motor control and many other general-purpose three-phase inverter applications.