Adoption by Intel makes digital controllers mainstream technology, says Petrov Group

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The next generation of Intel's power architecture, VR12, to be introduced in the third quarter of 2011 represents a watershed industry event, according to Boris Petrov, managing director of the Petrov Group. For the first time ever the analog controller is being replaced by a digital controller in Intel's high-end computing point-of-load (POL) applications, that is, in the server power infrastructure.