Major breakthrough in chip power supply

THE worldwide 12 billion computer chip power supply production industry is set to be transformed by an Irish engineering breakthrough which has the potential to create hundreds of jobs in Ireland.

Research engineers from University College Cork, working at the NMRC ICT research institute, have achieved a major technological breakthrough that could see companies based in Ireland taking an international lead in the worldwide ICT power supply market estimated to be worth 12 billion.

George Young, managing director of Commergy, an advanced power supply products provider, said the power supply industry could be transformed through the commercialisation of the breakthrough.