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Current snapshotPOWER INTEGRATIONS INC
Power Electronics · Physical AI
Power Electronics exposure in Physical AI.
Power Integrations, Inc. sells integrated GaN-based switcher ICs for power supplies; company investor-relations page
Catalysts
Q3 2026 results 11-04-26 after market, call 1:30pm ET (PR 10-15-26). Launched ultra-slim auxiliary PSU reference designs for the NVIDIA Kyber 800 VDC AI data-center architecture (5-31-26) - the concrete path from consumer/industrial AC-DC into AI rack power.
Invalidation
needs primary source validation — pending deep-dive research. Placeholder: (1) thesis chain breaks on primary-source evidence, (2) named revenue/customer concentration risk, (3) margin compression or competitive displacement
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needs primary source validation — no X/Reddit signal yet
Lower-confidence snapshotTarget price: $71.67
Dated research targetMoat & position
- Evidence Grade
- Inferred
- Toll Road Tier
- Weak proxy
2026-11-04 · earnings
Deep research update
605 words · Updated 22 Oct 2026 · 5 sources
Research in development: this latest 605-word update is published for context while it is expanded toward Guide-level depth (1,000+ words).
POWER INTEGRATIONS INC (None, CIK 0000833640) — US-listed company materially exposed to Power Electronics.
Power Integrations designs and sells high-voltage analog and mixed-signal integrated circuits for power-conversion applications. The company’s historical focus is AC-DC power conversion, where it integrates a high-voltage power MOSFET into a controller IC. The business model is generally fabless or fab-lite: the company designs the chips and works with outside foundries for wafer fabrication and assembly/test providers.
Qualitative claims below are based on cached knowledge and are not primary-source verified for this output:
- Revenue mix by segment (%):
needs primary source validation
The company has historically reported one operating/reportable segment, so segment-level revenue mix may not be available from a segment note. Product-family or end-market mix may be discussed in MD&A. Exact percentages require the 10-K MD&A or supplemental investor disclosures and must be cross-verified.
- Gross margin:
needs primary source validation - Operating margin:
needs primary source validation - Net income:
needs primary source validation - Revenue growth rate:
needs primary source validation - Monetization model: sells ICs to OEMs, EMS providers, and distributors; revenue is generated on product shipments. Exact revenue-recognition policy requires direct quotation from the 10-K revenue recognition footnote.
- Who pays: power-supply OEMs, consumer-electronics OEMs, appliance makers, industrial equipment makers, LED lighting manufacturers, and distributors.
- Top customers from filings only:
needs primary source validation
The 10-K should be checked for customer concentration, distributor concentration, and whether any customer exceeds 10% of revenue.
Because I could not retrieve actual units shipped or revenue, I cannot compute POWI’s actual ASP or unit economics. The formula to run once primary data is retrieved is:
\[
\text{ASP per unit} = \frac{\text{net revenue from product sales}}{\text{units shipped in the same period}}
\]
If units shipped are not directly disclosed, a fallback is:
\[
\text{revenue per end-equipment unit} = \frac{\text{segment revenue}}{\text{estimated end-equipment shipments}}
\]
Sensitivity example, once inputs are available:
\[
\text{Market share estimate} = \frac{\text{POWI AC-DC revenue}}{\text{global AC-DC power-conversion IC TAM}}
\]
Sensitivity table for market share:
| POWI AC-DC revenue | Global TAM | Implied market share |
|---|---|---|
needs primary source validation | needs primary source validation | needs primary source validation |
Because the inputs are unverified, I will not insert a numerical result. In a live-raised version, each input would need either a direct filing citation or a named-institution market estimate.
From a filings-only perspective, the correct place to identify customers is:
- 10-K “Customers” or “Concentration of Credit Risk” note
- MD&A customer concentration disclosure
- 10-K risk factor on customer concentration
- Occasionally, named distributor relationships
Cached narrative — not primary-source verified — is that POWI sells to:
- Consumer-electronics OEM/ODM supply chains, including those producing AC adapters, chargers, quick-charge/USB-PD accessories, and appliances
- LED lighting suppliers
- Industrial power-supply makers
- Distributors, potentially including large electronics distributors such as Arrow or Avnet
However, I will not assert specific customer names because I could not verify them against the filing. In a compliant version, named customers must come directly from the 10-K or another Tier-1 filing.
Customer classes/buyer archetypes:
- Power-supply design engineers selecting AC-DC converter ICs
- Procurement teams at ODM/EMS companies
- Distributor central-listed customers
- OEM platform designers in appliances, computing, mobility, and industrial equipment
All of the above must be re-checked against the actual 10-K customer concentration and MD&A sections.
Power Integrations, Inc. sells integrated GaN-based switcher ICs for power supplies; company investor-relations page
- Power Integrations, Inc. sells integrated GaN-based switcher ICs for power supplies; company investor-relations page source
- POWER INTEGRATIONS INC — SEC EDGAR company filings source
| Parameter | Value | Source | Tier | Measured/derived/assumed | Cross-verified |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| SEC CIK | 0000833640 | SEC EDGAR company index, access date 2026-04-27 | Tier 1 registry entry | Measured | Yes |
| Most recent 10-K revenue | needs primary source validation | EDGAR 10-K filing | Tier 1 | Measured | No |
| Revenue mix by segment/product | needs primary source validation | EDGAR 10-K or 10-Q MD&A | Tier 1 | Measured | No |
| Gross margin | needs primary source validation | EDGAR 10-K income statement | Tier 1 | Measured | No |
| Operating margin | needs primary source validation | EDGAR 10-K income statement | Tier 1 | Measured | No |
| Customer concentration | needs primary source validation | EDGAR 10-K customer concentration note | Tier 1 | Measured | No |
| Units shipped | needs primary source validation | EDGAR 10-K MD&A or investor supplement | Tier 1 | Measured | No |
| Global AC-DC power-conversion IC TAM | needs primary source validation | Named-institution market study or competitor filing | Tier 1 | Derived | No |
Every missing value above must be replaced with an exact figure plus the document identifier, filing date, and access date before this report can be considered Tier-1 compliant.
_Pending primary-source company deep-dive._
Power Integrations sells integrated circuits that convert high-voltage AC or DC input into lower-voltage, regulated DC output for electronics. The core technical differentiation has historically been the integration of high-voltage switching elements with control, protection, and power-delivery functions. This reduces discrete component count, board area, and power-supply complexity.
Cached product families — all require primary-source validation — include:
- AC-DC converter IC families, historically marketed under brands such as TOPSwitch, TinySwitch, LinkSwitch, InnoSwitch, and others:
needs primary source validation - Gate-driver products, historically associated with the acquired CT-Concept/SCALE technology, used for IGBT and SiC gate driving in high-power industrial, traction, and energy applications:
needs primary source validation - Motor-driver ICs, sometimes marketed for brushless DC motor applications:
needs primary source validation - Integrated gallium-nitride power switches, sometimes branded as PowiGaN:
needs primary source validation
The economic moat, if present, comes from:
- Proprietary high-voltage device physics and process know-how.
- Integrated protection features that reduce design risk and shorten time-to-market.
- Installed design-in base: once a power-supply design is qualified around a specific IC, replacing it requires re-testing safety, efficiency, EMI, and thermal performance.
These are qualitative moat arguments. They are not primary-source verified for this output and should be tested against the 10-K “Competition” and “Intellectual Property” sections.
Whether POWI can raise prices without losing share must be assessed from primary data. Required evidence would include:
- Long-term gross-margin trend from 10-K income statements
- Pricing disclosures in MD&A
- Customer concentration and contract language in the 10-K
- Competitor pricing commentary in competitor filings
For this draft: needs primary source validation.
_Pending primary-source company deep-dive._
This section should be populated with filing-sourced evidence once the report is compliant. Without live data, I can only state the thesis-falsification framework.
The investment thesis would be wrong or impaired if any of the following are demonstrated by primary-source filings:
- Revenue becomes increasingly concentrated in one customer or distributor, raising pricing-power and receivables risk.
- Gross margin declines materially while competitors maintain or expand margins, indicating pricing pressure rather than a cyclical-only decline.
- The company’s high-voltage AC-DC product line loses design-ins to competitors using GaN, silicon-carbide, or lower-cost silicon architectures.
- The company fails to diversify into industrial, automotive, or data-center power applications, leaving it exposed to consumer inventory cycles.
- Competitor filings show faster revenue growth in POWI’s core markets with larger R&D budgets, suggesting POWI’s differentiation is narrowing.
- Major customers vertically integrate power-conversion design or shift to captive silicon, reducing POWI’s addressable market.
- Inventory levels at distributors rise persistently, and sell-through reporting shows over-shipment rather than true end-demand.
- A direct filing demonstrates that the company’s reported TAM or market-share claim is based on a source that cannot be independently reproduced or that conflicts with competitor disclosures.
Each of those would need to be evidenced by SEC filings or named-institution data, not by press summaries.
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Sources
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