Growatt Sets Up A Joint Laboratory with Texas Instruments for Sustainable Energy Applications
September 09, 2021 at 04:45 am EDT
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Growatt announced that it has set up a joint laboratory with global semiconductor company Texas Instruments (TI) in the city of Shenzhen, China. The joint laboratory aims to support Growatt to use TI's advanced semiconductor technologies and products to achieve an optimized photovoltaic (PV) energy storage solution. By leveraging TI's products and support, R&D engineers from Growatt plan to bring new upgrades and innovations in the energy efficiency, functional safety and intelligent solutions of inverter applications. . For the newly established joint laboratory, TI will recommend products and solutions and provide development tools and resources to help facilitate research and development in sustainable energy applications. With solar being an affordable source of energy generation, and battery storage cost continuously dropping, the establishment of a joint lab between Growatt and TI can help take clean energy technologies to the next level and deliver advanced, smart and powerful energy solutions.
Texas Instruments Incorporated specializes in the design, manufacturing and marketing of semiconductors. Net sales break down by family of products as follows:
- analog circuits (74.4%): operational amplifiers, audio amplifiers, interface circuits, data converters, power management circuits, logic integrated circuits, etc.;
- processors (19.2%): microprocessors, digital signal processors, microcontrollers, etc. for telecom applications (telephones and cellular infrastructures), and automobiles;
- other (6.4%): primarily graphic calculators et wireless connectivity products.
Net sales are distributed geographically as follows: the United States (33.2%), Europe/Middle East/Africa (26.5%), China (18.8%), Japan (10.2%), Asia (9.8%) and other (1.5%).