{"id":234849,"date":"2026-04-09T02:28:42","date_gmt":"2026-04-09T07:28:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/04\/prototype-chip-could-boost-efficiency-of-power-management-in-data-centers"},"modified":"2026-04-09T02:28:42","modified_gmt":"2026-04-09T07:28:42","slug":"prototype-chip-could-boost-efficiency-of-power-management-in-data-centers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/04\/prototype-chip-could-boost-efficiency-of-power-management-in-data-centers","title":{"rendered":"Prototype chip could boost efficiency of power management in data centers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/prototype-chip-could-boost-efficiency-of-power-management-in-data-centers.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>In an effort to meet the rising energy demands of data centers, engineers at the University of California San Diego have developed a new chip design that could improve how graphics processing units (GPUs) convert and manage power. The technology demonstrates a more efficient way to perform a critical task in electronics: converting high voltages into lower levels required by computing hardware. In lab tests, a prototype chip performed the type of voltage conversion used in modern data centers with high efficiency.<\/p>\n<p>The advance, published in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/s41467-026-70494-0\" target=\"_blank\"><i>Nature Communications<\/i><\/a>, could lead to the development of smaller, more energy-efficient systems for advanced computing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In an effort to meet the rising energy demands of data centers, engineers at the University of California San Diego have developed a new chip design that could improve how graphics processing units (GPUs) convert and manage power. The technology demonstrates a more efficient way to perform a critical task in electronics: converting high voltages [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1523,1694],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-234849","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computing","category-electronics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/234849","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=234849"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/234849\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=234849"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=234849"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=234849"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}