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Wise Integration will present its latest WiseWare®-powered AC-DC demonstration platforms at PCIM Europe 2026, taking place from June 9 to 11 in Nuremberg, Germany. The company will use the event to highlight its roadmap toward distributed digital control through the next generation of its WiseGan® Digital First power integrated circuits.
As a developer of digital control technologies for wide-bandgap and gallium nitride (GaN)-based power supplies, Wise Integration is positioning digital control at the center of next-generation power conversion architectures. The company believes this approach can help address the growing demand for higher switching frequencies, increased power density, and improved efficiency across applications such as AI infrastructure, electrification, edge computing, and space systems.
The increasing power requirements of AI data centers, electrified systems, edge computing platforms, and aerospace applications are creating new challenges for power conversion. While wide-bandgap technologies such as GaN and silicon carbide (SiC) have significantly improved switching performance, traditional analog control methods are becoming increasingly limited in their ability to fully translate device-level advancements into overall system-level benefits.
Wise Integration’s WiseWare® platform combines advanced digital control algorithms with GaN and SiC power stages to enable more precise converter operation. The technology is designed to optimize switching timing, support higher-frequency operation, and improve the management of efficiency, thermal performance, and passive component size.
“By leveraging standard microcontroller hardware to manage distributed digital control, we are removing the complexity that has historically limited scalability in premium applications,” said Ghislain Kaiser, CEO of Wise Integration. “This evolution allows us to deliver a unified, intelligent power solution specifically tailored for the rigorous demands of data centers, servers, electric vehicles, and edge AI.”
At PCIM 2026, the company will demonstrate several WiseWare®-controlled AC-DC power conversion platforms, including compact 240 W and 300 W designs, as well as higher-power 1 kW and 7 kW architectures. The demonstration boards showcase the scalability of the technology across a variety of power levels and converter topologies, including totem-pole power factor correction (PFC), LLC converters, single-stage architectures, and interleaved converter designs.
Building on these platforms, Wise Integration is advancing its digital control strategy through a more distributed power conversion architecture. The company will introduce its new WI73xxx generation at PCIM, representing a significant step toward the evolution of WiseGan® into a Digital First power IC platform.
The next generation of WiseGan® devices is designed to place more intelligence directly alongside the power switch, moving critical control functions such as protection, timing management, dead-time optimization, and zero-voltage switching control closer to the GaN power stage. According to the company, this approach enables faster response times, more accurate switching behavior, and improved overall efficiency and reliability.
Wise Integration also highlighted the upcoming WiseWare 2 platform, which introduces a new capability aimed at virtualizing the PFC stage. According to Ridha Hamza, Vice President of Sales, this functionality is expected to enable power density levels that significantly exceed those currently available in the market.
“By transitioning our distributed digital control strategy entirely onto MCU hardware within the new WiseGan generation, we are embedding critical intelligence directly into the power stage,” said Hamza. “This approach not only streamlines the design process for our customers but also unlocks unprecedented performance for high-end applications like AI servers and next-generation 800 V DC architectures, proving that the future of power conversion is not just about better components, but about smarter, fully integrated digital control.”
Together, WiseWare® and WiseGan® provide an integrated platform designed to help engineers reduce passive component size, lower bill-of-materials costs, improve protection response times, and achieve higher-performance power conversion. WiseWare® delivers software-defined intelligence at the controller level, while WiseGan® progressively integrates digital functionality directly into the power stage, enabling closer coordination between power devices and control systems.
The company stated that this roadmap supports its broader vision of distributed digital control in power electronics and is intended to enable a new generation of compact, efficient, and scalable power conversion solutions for AI infrastructure, electrification, premium consumer electronics, edge computing, space applications, and other high-performance markets.
Visitors to PCIM Europe 2026 will be able to view live demonstrations of the company’s latest technologies at Booth 243 in Hall 6.
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Wise Integration, Powernet and KEC have signed a strategic memorandum of understanding to co-develop next-generation switched-mode power supply (SMPS) solutions tailored for AI server applications in South Korea. The collaboration supports the country’s broader push to scale AI infrastructure and deploy higher-density data centers.
Under the agreement, Wise Integration will provide GaN power devices, digital-control know-how and technical support. Powernet Technologies Corporation will lead new SMPS designs built on Wise’s WiseGan® and WiseWare® technologies. KEC Corporation will oversee backend manufacturing, including module integration and system-in-package production optimized for the thermal and reliability demands of AI-server racks.
The partners expect the program to accelerate competitive AI-server power supply designs, create new business opportunities in Korea’s AI-server market and shorten time-to-market by leveraging WiseGan® and WiseWare®. The initiative extends an earlier Wise Integration–Powernet collaboration focused on compact, digitally controlled power supplies for faster, smaller and more energy-efficient equipment.
AI servers require high power, generate significant heat and depend on SMPS architectures that convert high-voltage inputs (such as 400 V) to stable 48 V rails with minimal loss. GaN devices paired with digital control enable higher switching frequencies, improved efficiency and tighter management of fast, high-current load transients—attributes well suited to these workloads.
The effort aligns with South Korea’s investments in AI-dedicated data centers, including high-performance GPU clusters and digital infrastructure that demand more efficient, compact and scalable power-conversion systems. “Korea is moving quickly to build the next generation of AI data centers, and power architecture is a critical piece of that effort. Working with Powernet and KEC lets us bring GaN-based digital control into server-grade designs at scale—delivering the efficiency, thermal performance, and responsiveness that modern AI hardware depends on,” said Ghislain Kaiser, CEO of Wise Integration.
Beyond the MoU, Wise Integration continues to broaden its GaN plus digital-control platform to support partners as switching frequencies rise, thermal budgets tighten and efficiency targets become more aggressive. The company recently introduced WiseWare® 1.0 for totem-pole PFC and LLC topologies, a fully digital controller that, while aimed today at gaming, displays and industrial systems, shares the same architecture—high-frequency GaN operation, compact form factor and digitally managed efficiency—that naturally extends to server-class designs envisioned under this Korea-focused collaboration.
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Wise Integration announced the appointment of Ghislain Kaiser as its new Chief Executive Officer. Kaiser succeeds co-founder Thierry Bouchet, who will continue as Chief Technology Officer and General Manager, leading worldwide R&D and driving the company’s technological vision.
Ghislain Kaiser brings deep experience in scaling high-tech ventures and leading global semiconductor teams. In 2006, he co-founded Docea Power, a French EDA startup that introduced full-chip, system-level power and thermal modeling to address the rising challenges of energy consumption and heat in IC and platform design. Under his leadership, Docea Power became a market leader before being acquired by Intel in 2015.
At Intel, Kaiser spent the following decade in senior director roles, most recently overseeing system simulation engineering and a worldwide customer enablement organization. His work tackled the most critical challenges in designing consumer, data-center, and AI systems, from power and thermal management to overall performance optimization. He began his career at STMicroelectronics, where he held technical and leadership roles in test, product engineering, design, and architecture.
With Kaiser at the helm, Wise Integration is positioning itself to scale globally and tap into fast-growing markets such as AI-driven data centers and electric vehicles, both of which demand more efficient, compact, and digitally controlled power architectures.
“I’m thrilled to join Wise Integration and build on its success in providing customers with differentiated solutions in power electronics,” said Kaiser. “This team has created an R&D-driven culture and a strong foundation to lead the GaN power electronics transformation worldwide.”
Chairman Patrick Boulaud welcomed Kaiser’s appointment as a major milestone for the company’s evolution from a CEA-Leti spinout into a global force in GaN and digital power management innovation. Co-founder Thierry Bouchet added that with WiseGan® devices and WiseWare® digital control, the company has already built a strong foundation in consumer markets. The next step, he emphasized, is scaling innovations to deliver unmatched efficiency and power density to AI servers, data centers, and automotive systems.
Company Highlights (2020–2025)
- Spun out from CEA-Leti in 2020 using the institute’s GaN-on-silicon R&D platform
- Developed proprietary WiseGan® IC and WiseWare® microcontroller
- Launched fully digital controller WiseWare® 1.1
- Opened a design center in Canada and established an Asian subsidiary in Hong Kong
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