Flex first-to-market with new Capacitive
Energy Storage System products featuring Musashi's Hybrid
SuperCapacitors at the center
AUSTIN,
Texas, and BATTLE CREEK,
Mich., Aug. 8, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- Flex
(NASDAQ: FLEX) and Musashi Energy Solutions a group company of
Musashi Seimitsu Industry Co., Ltd. (Tokyo Stock Exchange Prime
Market: 7220), announced an extensive collaboration to supply
Flex-designed and manufactured Capacitor-based Energy Storage
Systems (CESS) featuring Musashi's Hybrid SuperCapacitor (HSC)
technology. These systems are designed to integrate with server
rack power systems to address significant challenges with utility
power in artificial intelligence (AI) data centers. First to market
with Musashi's HSC technology, Flex has collaborated with Musashi
to develop strategic technology and product development roadmaps
for current and future products that enable hyperscale operators to
mitigate utility power fluctuations in data centers deploying AI
workloads.
Flex's CESS solutions are designed to balance peak power and
protect the grid from intense power surges and line disturbances
during AI training and inference activities taking place in modern
data center environments. Musashi's state-of-the-art HSCs are
designed to provide high-reliability energy storage in many
applications and are known for their power density, longevity, and
reliability. The technology reduces equipment size, weight and
total cost of ownership.
Key features of the CESS include:
- The ability to support and balance power supply systems
during large power transients
- Efficient energy management and the reduction of large
power transients or spikes produced by AI workloads by alternately
supplying and absorbing energy in its internal Hybrid
Supercapacitors, which are supplied by Musashi
- A significantly longer lifespan than current battery
energy storage systems, with ability to provide multi-million
charge/discharge cycles – essential for high performance capacity
and dependability needed in the data center
- A wide operating temperature and inherent safety
through Musashi's Hybrid SuperCapacitors, with cells able to
operate in temperature ranges from minus 30 to over 70 degrees
Celsius, plus UL 810A certification and completion of UL 9540A
testing for thermal runaway at the cell level
"We are proud to lead the charge in powering the next generation
of AI innovation alongside Flex to address the power challenges
needed to unleash capacity for explosive data center growth," said
Frank DeLattre, President of Musashi
Energy Solutions in North America.
"Our partnership with Flex for its new CESS product will bring
reliable, efficient and scalable power solutions to the market.
Musashi Energy Solutions continues to invest heavily in future
Hybrid SuperCapacitor cell development to meet the future power
density demands in AI computing as well as the manufacturing
capacity required for customers to meet the forecasted cell
volume."
"Our collaboration with Musashi is central to developing our
innovative CESS solutions to sustainably support the complex power
demands of AI data centers worldwide," said Mattias Jansson, Vice President of Power
Solutions at Flex. "Together with Musashi, our technology and
innovation portfolio plans enable Flex to provide hyperscale
operators with advanced energy storage systems that enable them to
address long-term energy transitions. Our CESS solutions are
another proof point of how Flex is enabling customers to maximize
AI server cluster computing performance and unlock data center
capacity as AI applications drive unprecedented growth."
Flex is slated to begin production of its CESS in the first half
of Calendar Year 2025, with commercial availability expected within
one quarter of production start.
About Flex
Flex (Reg. No. 199002645H) is the manufacturing partner of
choice that helps a diverse customer base design and build products
that improve the world. Through the collective strength of a global
workforce across 30 countries and responsible, sustainable
operations, Flex delivers technology innovation, supply chain, and
manufacturing solutions to diverse industries and end markets.
About Musashi Energy Solutions – North America
Musashi Energy Solutions (MES) designs and develops high-power,
long-lasting, and safe Hybrid SuperCapacitors (HSCs). Based in
Battle Creek, Michigan, with
manufacturing and assembly in Yamanashi, Japan and Battle
Creek, Michigan, Musashi's talented R&D and system
engineers are breaking free from perceived barriers and limitations
to create new value through unique engineering development
activities in design, prototyping, and testing. (
https://musashienergysolutions.com/ )
About Musashi Energy Solutions – Japan
Musashi Energy Solutions Co. Ltd., a group company of Musashi
Seimitsu Industry co., Ltd. (Tokyo Stock Exchange Prime Market:
7220), is a pioneer (founded August
1, 2007)in the mass production of HSCs, which are
sustainable and expected to contribute to the optimization of
energy efficiency in next-generation social infrastructure such as
data centers, micro-grids, public transportation and large
commercial electric vehicles. ( https://www.musashi-es.co.jp/ )
Flex Contacts
Investors & Analysts
David A. Rubin
Vice President, Investor Relations
(408) 577-4632
David.Rubin@flex.com
Media & Press
Michelle Kershner
Director, Corporate Integrated Marketing and Communications
(602) 421-6407
michelle.kershner@flex.com
Musashi Energy Solutions North America Contacts
Business Development
Frank DeLattre
President, Musashi Energy Solution - Americas
(858) 361-9558
Frank.DeLattre@musashina.com
Media & Press
Danny Agar
Director of Marketing, Musashi North
America
(248) 971-5174
Danny.Agar@musashina.com
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