Toshiba America Electronic Components, Inc. Speaks On Maximizing Solar Inverter Performance

May 7, 2012

See Presentation at the Avnet Electronics Marketing Americas Smart Energy Forum on May 16, 2012.

IRVINE, Calif., May 7, 2012 — Toshiba America Electronic Components, Inc., (TAEC), a committed leader that collaborates with technology companies to create breakthrough designs, will present "Maximizing Solar Inverter Performance" at the Avnet Electronics Marketing Americas Smart Energy Forum.

The presentation will address the role that solar inverters have in renewable energy generation. It will explain how today's inverter requirements call for both high efficiency and high power densities creating a challenge for traditional power devices. This seminar examines how the Toshiba DTMOS IV family can maximize solar inverter performance due to improved RDS (ON) x area trade off and can achieve higher efficiency with higher power density.

Date: May 16, 2012
Time: 24-hour, online event
Free Registration: http://www.em.avnet.com/smartenergy.

About Avnet's Smart Energy Forum

Taking place on May 16, 2012, Avnet's Smart Energy Forum encompasseses a wide range of technologies and applications, from those that generate, convert and control energy to the communications technologies used in applications that monitor and manage energy in consumer and industrial settings. The online forum will last an entire day and provide engineers on-demand educational and technical resources relevant to solutions in four areas:

• Home and building automation
• Metering
• Infrastructure
• Energy generation and conversion

About TAEC

Through proven commitment, lasting relationships and advanced, reliable electronic components, Toshiba enables its customers to create market-leading designs. Toshiba is the heartbeat within product breakthroughs from OEMs, ODMs, CMs, VARs, distributors and fabless chip companies worldwide. A committed electronic components leader, Toshiba designs and manufactures high-quality flash memory-based storage solutions, solid state drives (SSDs ), hard disk drives (HDDs), discrete devices, advanced materials, medical tubes, custom SoCs/ASICs, imaging products, microcontrollers and wireless components that make possible today's leading smartphones, tablets, MP3 players, cameras, medical devices, automotive electronics, enterprise solutions and more.

Toshiba America Electronic Components, Inc. is an independent operating company owned by Toshiba America, Inc., a subsidiary of Toshiba Corporation, Japan's largest semiconductor manufacturer and the world's third largest semiconductor manufacturer (Gartner, 2011 WW Semiconductor Revenue, March, 2012). Toshiba was founded in 1875 and today has over 490 subsidiaries and affiliates, with 203,000 employees worldwide and annual sales of $77 billion. Visit Toshiba's web site at www.toshiba.co.jp/index.htm .

Information in this press release, including product pricing and specifications, content of services and contact information, is current and believed to be accurate on the date of the announcement, but is subject to change without prior notice. Technical and application information contained here is subject to the most recent applicable Toshiba product specifications. In developing designs, please ensure that Toshiba products are used within specified operating ranges as set forth in the most recent Toshiba product specifications and the information set forth in Toshiba’s "Handling Guide for Semiconductor Devices," or "Toshiba Semiconductor Reliability Handbook." This information is available at www.chips.toshiba.com, or from your TAEC representative.