Thursday, April 24th 2025
FSP Group Partners with Intel to Launch Energy-efficient and Backup-integrated Next-gen Power Solutions
Facing global challenges of energy conservation, carbon reduction, and sustainable development, Intel has been committed to pushing the industry toward higher performance and lower energy consumption product standards, actively leading the PC ecosystem toward a dual track of environmental protection and innovation. FSP Group, as Intel's long-term strategic development partner, shares the same philosophy and has continuously invested in power supply technology innovation with Intel's support, particularly focusing on 12VO architecture design that complies with the latest energy efficiency regulations.
At the Intel Client Ecosystem Symposium, FSP showcased its latest V3 version of TFX 12VO PSU, which not only helps brand customers build compliant PC systems but also contributes to carbon reduction and environmental protection with a design that balances high performance and energy efficiency.
FSP500-10TRC Features
EnerXBar 090-19A BBU: Designed for mini PCs and lightweight systems, with an integrated plug-and-play architecture. Demonstrated with ASUS's 15th generation NUC, it showcases its ability to provide zero transfer time (0 ms) backup during power outages, solving the pain points of data loss and system interruption.
EnerXBar 090-19A BBU Features
EnerXCube 550-M ATX BBU Features
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At the Intel Client Ecosystem Symposium, FSP showcased its latest V3 version of TFX 12VO PSU, which not only helps brand customers build compliant PC systems but also contributes to carbon reduction and environmental protection with a design that balances high performance and energy efficiency.
- Intel PSDG ATX12VO V3.0 version
- 500 W Bronze efficiency
- Standard TFX form factor, dimensions (L x W x H): 175 x 85 x 65 mm
- Fixed cable design
- Global voltage input range 100Vac-240Vac
- 10TRC series power options: 300 W / 400 W / 500 W
EnerXBar 090-19A BBU: Designed for mini PCs and lightweight systems, with an integrated plug-and-play architecture. Demonstrated with ASUS's 15th generation NUC, it showcases its ability to provide zero transfer time (0 ms) backup during power outages, solving the pain points of data loss and system interruption.
EnerXBar 090-19A BBU Features
- Integrated design
- Plug and play
- Long backup time
- Replaceable DC output interface
- Zero transfer time (0 ms)
- Peak power support (>160%@1 millisecond)
- Long service life
- AC failure detection (optional)
EnerXCube 550-M ATX BBU Features
- 550 W rated output power
- Integrated design
- Built-in 65 W USB PD
- Zero transfer time (0 ms)
- Extra-long backup time
- Long service life
- LiFePo4 rechargeable battery
- RS-232 communication interface
13 Comments on FSP Group Partners with Intel to Launch Energy-efficient and Backup-integrated Next-gen Power Solutions
Simplify power supply units to outsource the efficiency problems and parts to the mainboard.
RS-232C has to die. We have usb already or ethernet
A standalone UPS provides more convenience and elasticity. It can power your monitor at the same time, so you can actually save documents, start to shut down cleanly, and so on instead of just keeping the PC running because there's a battery in the PSU.
Batteries, even LiFePo4 do not like heat:They do have longer life span, but still from the render it looks to be not user serviceable.
For business uses UPS batteries usually have strict replacement schedules, and that can be done when UPS is running most of the time. With a PSU-integrated battery there's going to be a lot more manual labor required with disruptions to the system itself.
As for the ATX 12VO PSU having bronze efficiency, really? Dell has been shipping platinums in their custom 12V designs (for example Optiplex) for some time now.
LiFePo4 cells are probably the most tolerant of all stresses* amongst the common lithium chemistries. *excepting cold.The PSU has an always-online UPS integrated into it. (0ms transfer time) There's stacked AC-DC-AC-DC conversion going on.
On the plus side, these PSUs should have very clean power output with good isolation from outside interference.
From the datasheet it sounds like they might be using a PR move by utilizing ATX-mandated hold-up time (>=12ms) as an internal buffer, so from the external point of view it's 0ms switch time. But that's just my theory ;)Edit: from the datasheet it doesn't look like it. ±5% to ±10% on regulation. 120 mV ripple on 12V, when the last TPU PSU review scored up to 24 mV. 120 is the upper limit of the ATX specification, so this looks quite bad.
I was running almost 50ft of USB to monitor my compact medicine fridge that is on a 1500VA/1000w UPS.
Although USB2.0 (UPSs tend to use 2.0) assumes data is lost if it doesn't arrive in some milliseconds (I forget) I guess the active repeaters passed on info of incoming data or something. With USB3.0+ there's no such restriction so active USB3.0 works extremely well over long distances. Because I was bored or something, I connected a SATA SSD to the 50ft USB3.0 repeaters and got just over 400MB/s sequential read and write.
Although I do agree with you on the simplicity of RS232
But that's really wet dream of MBA scammers:
Components must be about dirt cheap and as new different type of product they can give it high price sticker.
So win-win.
Who cares (definitely not Intel) that more power gets wasted as heat causing also need for more cooling...
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That's amount of wasted power from 80+ Bronze to Platinum PSU...
silentpcreview.com/power-lost-a-better-way-to-compare-psu-efficiency/Another "upgrade" by MBA and marketing scammers:
Hold-up time requirement used to be 17ms.
Guess ATX 3.2 goes to below half wave of 50Hz like 9ms...
Maybe FSP digged up old Epsilon platform.
PSUs using that routinely exceeded max allowed ripple in reviews.
That should also fit to inefficiency rating.
But just because it can doesn't mean it will produce better designs, the manufacturers can of course just pocket the savings if they want, that's where ratings come in and having an 80 bronze rating should mean an instant no buy.
And motherboard wouldn't have any more idea of something needing 3.3V/5V than PSU.
Without those for example of electronics of HDD/SSD wouldn't start at all.
Pretty sure also most expansion cards would be pretty mute.
And 5V is anyway needed for the USB, so you can't avoid generating it somewhere.
Or are we going to trash also that just for having change for the sake of change?
In highly controlled/specified environment these type changes can work.
But in general PC world they would just create more new issues than solve.
On a fully loaded machine it's simply moving the problem from one place to another, but most machines are not that so ATX12VO ends up making a lot of sense, so much so it was already becoming a thing in oem machines before the standard was even published.