- Energy demand worldwide continues to grow at 2.4 percent per year
while natural resources are limited and environmental problems
continue to increase
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- Until 2030 the consumption of primary energy will probably have
increased by 50 percent compared to 2004
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- At this stage, China is already the country with the second largest energy
consumption, after the United States. China's additional future energy
demand is presumed to be equivalent to the demand of all OECD
countries
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- India is the country with the sixth largest energy consumption and the
energy consumption is predicted to further increase as well
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- More than 30 percent of the total energy usage worldwide is consumed
by electric power, thereof about 40 percent by motors, about 15 percent
by lighting and approximately 6 percent by power supplies in electronics
based equipment
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- Almost all areas of electronic equipment have a huge potential for
improved power management - from motor drives, power supplies and
computing equipment to consumer products and lighting equipment
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- Semiconductors for power electronics are the key to efficient energy
management. Infineon is the global market leader in power electronics
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- Infineon’s expertise comprises a broad spectrum of power
semiconductors and modules for the efficient management of energy
and power supply as well as of electrical drive equipment and
automation
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- CoolMOS semiconductors enable completely new system approaches
for power supplies, as used in servers, PCs, and laptops and in battery
chargers in mobile phones and PDAs
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- Compared to the past, these power supplies designs are now very small
in weight and in size – even though the output power of these
applications increased
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- Infineon’s IGBT chips enable new concepts of drives in household
applications for example in fridges, in air conditioning systems, cooking
ovens, and industrial applications
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- Asia is the key market for these applications since it drives the
high-volume development for many consumer, computing and
white goods applications
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- As the leader in this market and in power technologies, we can enable
the industry to minimize power losses and maximize energy savings
along the entire power cycle: generation, transmission and consumption
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- It is expected that 80 percent of all electrical energy will be controlled and
regulated by power electronics by 2010
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