JA > The picture showed a line-operated JA > "plug," which suggests they've JA > got galvanic isolation. G > They're taking PRE-ORDERS on their website.. G > This 65W laptop adapter is to be out in mid 2014. G > At CES 2014 in Las Vegas Jan 7-10 G > Venetian Level 1 Booth #74113 G > Anybody here going to CES? G > FINsix is supposedly based in Menlo Park, CA G > ASIC work is to be at: 27 Drydock Avenue, Boston, MA 02210 G > Venture capital backed.
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G > (Impressive) Leadership Team Vanessa Green - Chief Executive Officer Vanessa is co-founder and Chief Executive Officer of FINsix. Most recently, Vanessa was a business development manager at TECOM Investments (Dubai, UA E) where she led business development and strategy for Enpark, a 1.4M squar e foot sustainable real estate project and investment vehicle. Vanessa work ed with the Monitor Group from 2005 ? 2007 and is a board member of Commu nity Water Solutions, a non-profit she co-founded in 2008. In 2011, Vanessa won the Patrick E. McGovern Entrepreneurship Award, and was selected as a Boston Business Journal Innovation All-Stars Rising Star and Forbes 30-unde r-30 in Energy. Vanessa holds an M.Eng. in Civil and Environmental Engineer ing from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, an MBA from the Massach usetts Institute of Technology Sloan School of Management and a B.A. in Env ironmental Science from Dartmouth College. Anthony Sagneri - Chief Technology Officer Tony is co-founder and Chief Technology Officer at FINsix. Prior to startin g FINsix, Tony completed a Ph.D. with the RLE/LEES laboratory at MIT in VHF power. He helped establish the fundamental network principles behind VHF p ower conversion and designed and built over a dozen high-performance conver ters. In addition he established and validated device optimization and tran sformer synthesis techniques enabling higher efficiency and access to a bro ader applications space. Before MIT, Tony served for five years in the U.S. Air Force, rising to the rank of Captain. As a Mission Operations Commande r at DGS-2, Beale AFB, he led a team of 70 intelligence operators to 169 co llection missions over a number of locations worldwide. Tony holds a Ph.D. and S.M. in Electrical Engineering from MIT, a BSEE from Rensselaer Polytec hnic Institute and is a graduate of the U.S. Air Force Intelligence Officer Course. Joseph Scarci - VP of Sales and Marketing Joe is Vice President of Sales and Marketing at FINsix, where he leads all product management, product marketing, marcom, and partnering activities. P rior to FINsix, Joe worked as Vice President of Marketing at SolarBridge Te chnologies, a microinverter start-up based in Austin, TX. At SolarBridge, J oe was responsible for all marketing and sales activities and led partnerin g efforts that resulted in six contracts with leading solar panel manufactu rers. Prior to SolarBridge, he worked at Schneider Electric/American Power Conversion, Analog Devices, and AT&T, where he held a variety of general ma nagement and senior marketing positions. Joe earned both a Bachelor of Scie nce degree in Mechanical Engineering and a Master of Business Administratio n degree from Carnegie Mellon University. Jim Kardarch - Director, Technology Integration (Computing) Jim retired from Intel at the end of 2012 as a Senior Principal Engineer an d Chief Power Architect. Jim worked at Intel for 26 years, with 24 years fo cused on notebook platform architecture and low power technologies. Jim has over 100 issued patents and has lead development of many industry specific ations including ACPI (Advanced Configuration and Power Interface), and a l ow power radio technology he famously named Bluetooth. Jim is a senior memb er of IEEE, was an original inductee into the Bluetooth Hall of Fame (2006) , and was a runner up in the Discover Magazine Award for Technology Innovat ion in 1999, has received five Intel Achievement Awards and a gold Intel En vironmental award. Jim also does volunteer work with the MESA (Math Enginee ring Science and Achievement) program for underprivileged students to encou rage STEM education for which Jim was awarded the 2012 Santa Clara Site Int el Involved Hero Award and works with the MESA program as part of an Encore Fellowship program. Jim has a BS in Electrical Engineering from California State University Fresno (?84) and was recently awarded their ?Top Dog ? Alumni award for lifetime achievement (Go Dogs!) and was recently featu red in the CSU Working in California series for CSU?s 50th anniversary. Dave Grant - Director, IC Development Dave is the Director of IC development at FINsix. Prior to FINsix, Dave wor ked at Texas Instruments for 18 years, holding the title of Distinguished M ember of Technical Staff. At Texas Instruments he designed and led the desi gn of many different families of analog and mixed signal ICs, including pow er controllers, monolithic power converters, LDOs and RF ICs. Prior to Texa s Instruments, Dave worked as a system level designer for 11 years, develop ing video test equipment for Philips, CRT based computer monitors and test hardware for IBM, high end stereo electronics for Linn Products and digital electronics for a business computer company. He has 20 issued patents. Dav e has a BSc in Electrical and Electronic Engineering from The University of Glasgow, Scotland, UK. G > Their other product:
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LED Driver (In Development) G > I just hope it's not another vaporware.. Jan > So it seems to be resonant after all...: Jan > :-)
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Technology Advantages
10x Power Density At VHF switching frequencies, energy is processed more often, so it can be handled in smaller chunks. This means less temporary energy storage so the inductors and capacitors can shrink. Since these energy storage components occupy the bulk of the volume, the direct consequence is reduced converter size?up to 10x?and higher power density. Amazing Transient Response Transient response reflects how fast a power converter can adapt to changes in the load or source. FINsix converters are 1,000x faster than today?s technology. This makes life easier for system designers and enables unexpec ted applications, like best in class dimming and compatibility for LED lamp s. Rugged Reliability The elimination of heavy components, like magnetic core transformers, enabl es superior resistance to mechanical shock and vibration. Furthermore, the overall reduction in component count, specifically of through-hole componen ts, means fewer points of failure. Batch Manufacturing Since we don?t need discrete inductors or other through-hole components, our power converters can be manufactured in a fully automated surface-mount process, ensuring high reliability and repeatability. Jan > And no efficiencey numbers given, must be really bad. Jan > Only advantage small size? Jan > Only 110 V? Jan > How about RF interference at VHF? with DTV, cellphones? Jan > Normal switchers are already bad enough, Jan > I have one radiating 250 kHz. This would be hard to get past FCC emissions testing right? Jan > And to say, here:
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"Highest Performance - Blinking, instability, noise and LED lamps that just refuse to turn on are history." Jan > Well that is almost like saying: Jan > "Our cars start every time, unlike noisy Jan > other ones that just refuse to start..." Jan > Gimme a break. Jan > :-) Do any of your LED lamps "just refuse to turn on" ? ROFL What do you think the odds are that FINsix will make it to 2015?