CPES VRM research featured in Virginia Tech's Collegiate Times
CPES Director, Fred C. Lee, and the Center's VRM research development were highlighted in The Collegiate Times, Blacksburg's oldest newspaper established in 1903 at Virginia Tech.
The article that appeared in the 10/30/08 issue began with the CPES VRM story...
In 1997, Intel, a multibillion-dollar company, came to Lee and CPES with a specific task: come up with a way to provide power to the Pentium processor.
This chip was the fastest microprocessor to ever hit the market and required much more power to operate. Lee developed a way to distribute power among multiple sources.
By 2000, Lee's new model, known technically as a multi-phased voltage regulator module, was used in every Intel processor.
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Fred C. Lee in CPES Lab in Whittemore Hall
(Photo credit: Michael Shroyer/SPPS)
The Center for Power Electronics Systems (CPES), a 5-university consortium that includes Virginia Tech (lead institution), University of Wisconsin-Madison, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, North Carolina A&T State University, and University of Puerto Rico-Mayagüez, was established in 1998 as a National Science Foundation Engineering Research Center (NSF ERC). Over the last decade, the Center has made significant contributions towards reducing the world's energy consumption through advances in power electronics.
The Center celebrated graduation from the 10-year NSF ERC program this year.
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