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Capacitor Backup Unit (CBU)

Capacitor Backup Units provide short duration energy buffering to maintain stable power during transient events, load steps, or brief interruptions in AI infrastructure. By storing energy in high power capacitors, CBUs protect sensitive electronics and stabilize downstream power paths.

Design Challenges

CBU designs must address demanding transient conditions:

  • High charge and discharge currents

  • Fast response to transient events

  • Thermal stress from repeated cycling

  • Long service life in infrastructure environments

Why Vishay
Vishay enables CBU designs with high reliability capacitors, resistors, and sensing components built for high power operation, fast response, and long term stability.

Our solutions support:

  • Reliable transient energy delivery
  • Controlled thermal behavior
  • Infrastructure‑class lifetime performance

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Once you meet the eligibility criteria, scroll down to submit your entry and claim your lei!

ELIGIBILITY: This competition is open to all Avnet inside sales representatives who support customers in the Americas market.

  • WATCH the video featuring Vishay’s commitment to Avnet.
  • LEARN more about Vishay’s product portfolio and growth, then pass the quiz with a 100% score.
  • SELL Vishay technologies that include at least two distinct Vishay products with shipments scheduled by June 27, 2025, with a total value as listed in the table below.

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Once your entry is verified, you will receive a lei from your branch location. Open the secure bag to see if it is blue or green. If you receive a blue lei, send a picture of yourself wearing it with your biggest smile to Morgan Stanley and Mark Del Gatto to be entered into the grand prize drawing. Qualifying blue lei winners will be entered into a raffle drawing where ONE winner will be selected to join Vishay at President’s Club 31 in Kauai.

MVP Award

Once you meet the eligibility criteria, scroll down to submit your entry.

ELIGIBILITY: This competition is open to ALL Avnet employees who support customers in the Americas market with Vishay technologies.

How to Enter

  • WATCH the video featuring Vishay’s commitment to Avnet.
  • LEARN more about Vishay’s product portfolio and growth, then pass the quiz with a 100% score.
  • SHARE a success story that highlights how you won with Vishay. Your example may include how you became familiar with Vishay's product portfolio to support a design-in opportunity, how you leveraged tools such as the Vishay Parts Library to help populate a customer's Bill of Materials (BoM), or how you utilized Vishay's new competitive pricing to win in a key market segment. 

How to Win

Once your entry is verified, the MVP stories will be compared and judged to determine the Most Valuable Partnership story. The winner will have an example of a way they exemplified the Vishay 3.0 framework centered on customer focus, business growth, and strategic expansion. ONE winner from this category will be selected to join Vishay at President's Club 31 in Kauai, to be announced in July 2025.

Escape to Hawaii

Sell Big - Dream Big

Once you meet the eligibility criteria, scroll down to submit your entry and claim your lei!

ELIGIBILITY: This competition is open to all Avnet inside sales representatives who support customers in the Americas market.

  • WATCH the video featuring Vishay’s commitment to Avnet.
  • LEARN more about Vishay’s product portfolio and growth, then pass the quiz.
  • SELL Vishay technologies that include at least two distinct Vishay products with shipments scheduled by June 27, 2025, with a total value as listed in the table below.

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How To Win

Once your entry is verified, you will receive a lei from your branch location. Open the secure bag to see if it is blue or green. If you receive a blue lei, send a picture of yourself wearing it with your biggest smile to Morgan Stanley and Mark Del Gatto to be entered into the grand prize drawing. Qualifying blue lei winners will be entered into a raffle drawing where ONE winner will be selected to join Vishay at President’s Club 31 in Kauai.

MVP Award

Once you meet the eligibility criteria, scroll down to submit your entry and claim your lei!

ELIGIBILITY: This competition is open to ALL Avnet employees who support customers in the Americas market with Vishay technologies.

How to Enter

  • WATCH the video featuring Vishay’s commitment to Avnet.
  • LEARN more about Vishay’s product portfolio and growth, then pass the quiz.
  • SHARE your success story detailing how you helped an Avnet customer design with Vishay, learn about a Vishay product or technology, or answer a question using a resource like the Vishay Parts Library. 

How to Win

Once your entry is verified, the MVP stories will be compared and judged to determine the Most Valuable Partnership story. The winner will have an example of a way they exemplified the Vishay 3.0 framework centered on customer focus, business growth, and strategic expansion. ONE winner from this category will be selected to join Vishay at President's Club 31 in Kauai, to be announced in July 2025.

 

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Converts facility or HVDC input to regulated 54 V bulk power using high‑efficiency totem‑pole PFC and LLC stages with low‑loss MOSFETs, inductors, and polymer capacitors.

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