Infineon Advances NVIDIA 800 VDC Work With GaN, Switching to 1 MHz

Infineon's GaN Portfolio for 800 VDC Conversion

According to the release, Infineon's GaN portfolio covers the conversion ratios needed at the high-voltage IBC stage: 800 V to 50 V, 800 V to 12 V and 800 V to 6 V. Combined with its PSoC control C3 and EiceDRIVER product families, Infineon said it provides full system solutions for IBCs. It also sells IBC options in silicon and silicon carbide, so customers can choose by design requirement.

The work builds on joint efforts first announced in May 2025 and detailed in October 2025, which focused on serviceable, hot-swappable 800 VDC server racks. The collaboration also covers power path protection, including hot-swap controller functions meant to let future server boards run on 800 VDC.

Infineon framed 800 VDC as an added option rather than a replacement. In its words, the architecture is being introduced alongside existing AC and lower-voltage DC distribution for higher-density compute. Chief executive Jochen Hanebeck said GaN-based system solutions are a key enabler of the next generation of data centers.

What Infineon and NVIDIA Have Not Confirmed

The release does not name a product launch date, a customer deployment, volumes or pricing, and it does not quantify the efficiency gain over a silicon IBC. It also does not say which NVIDIA rack generation will use the converters. Those details will decide how quickly 800 VDC moves from reference design to installed racks, and how much it changes the power and cooling plans operators are drawing up now.

For context on the rack side of this shift, see how Dell packs 256 NVIDIA Vera CPUs into one 48U rack, which shows how much compute is being concentrated per rack.