International Rectifier Announces the Retirement of Founder and Chairman Eric Lidow (April 21, 2008)

International Rectifier Names Peter Knepper Acting Chief Financial Officer (April 16, 2008)

New High Performance MOSFETS for Power Supplies and Electric Motors (April 16, 2008)

International Rectifier Names Michael Barrow Executive Vice President and Chief Operations Officer (April 3, 2008)

New Robust TO-247 Family of MOSFETs (April 2, 2008)

IR’s IR3502 XPhase® Control IC Provides Highly Flexible Intel® VR11.0 and VR11.1 Processor-Based Power Solutions (March 10, 2008)

International Rectifier Appoints Don Dancer Executive Vice President and Chief Administrative Officer (March 6, 2008)

International Rectifier Elects New Board Member - Tom Lacey (March 5, 2008)

IR’s 600V Trench IGBTs Reduce Power Dissipation Up to 30 Percent in UPS and Solar Inverter Applications (March 3, 2008)

IR’s iP2005A Delivers Low Power Loss with Low EMI in 40 Percent Smaller Package (February 28, 2008)

IR’s Real-time Power Monitoring IC Accurately Captures Highly Dynamic Power Information and Maximizes System Performance (February 25, 2008)

International Rectifier to Present Latest Power Management Solutions At Major Industry Event (February 19, 2008)

International Rectifier Elects New Board Members (February 15, 2008)

IR’s IR3514 and IR3507 XPhase® Chipset Provides Full-featured, Flexible Approach to Implementing Complete AMD® CPU Power Solution (February 14, 2008)

International Rectifier Names Oleg Khaykin President and Chief Executive Officer (February 7, 2008)

IR’s Mx Series Platform Simplifies Satellite Power Design. New Platform-Based Design Approach Provides Simple Custom Configuration (January 31, 2008)

International Rectifier's Class D Audio Chipset Wins EN-Genius Network Product of the Year Award (January 21, 2008)

IR Introduces Protected Three-Phase 600V IC Featuring Extra Channel for PFC or Brake and Ground Fault Protection (January 17, 2008)

International Rectifier’s Class D Audio IC Wins Electronic Product's Magazine Product of the Year Award (January 3, 2008)

International Rectifier’s iPOWIR™’s Full Function Power Stage Plus Control IC Reduces Space and Simplifies Design Of High Efficiency POL Buck Converters (December 19, 2007)

IR’s SupIRBuck™ Family of Integrated DC-DC Regulators Shrinks Silicon Footprint by 70 Percent; Simplifies Embedded Power Designs (November 29, 2007)

International Rectifier’s iMOTION Design Platform Wins Prestigious Environmental Design Award (November 6, 2007)

International Rectifier Announces Promotion of Marc Rougee to Executive Vice President Operations (November 2, 2007)

IR Introduces Robust Three-Phase 600V ICs with Integrated Bootstrap Functionality, Negative Vs Immunity, and Advanced Input Filtering (October 18, 2007)

International Rectifier Announces Promotions to Sales Management Team. Paul Rolls Promoted to Acting Senior Vice President, Global Sales Nick Cataldo Promoted to Vice President, Americas Sales (October 16, 2007)

International Rectifier’s New 600V High-Voltage ICs Integrate Host of Protection Features (October 11, 2007)

International Rectifier Announces Executive Management Promotion of Industry Veteran, Dr. Michael A. Briere, Appointed as Chief Technology Officer (October 5, 2007)

International Rectifier Outlines Key Internal Initiatives (October 3, 2007)

International Rectifier Announces Resignation of Alex Lidow as Chief Executive Officer (October 3, 2007)

IR Introduces Integrated and Protected Class D Audio Chipset for Small, High Performance Amplifiers (October 2, 2007)

International Rectifier Grants License Agreement for DirectFET® Packaging Technology to Infineon Technologies (September 26, 2007)

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International Rectifier is the power semiconductor expert and is recognized as a leading supplier of power systems solutions. Their power conversion components make electricity work smarter and use less energy in virtually every type of modern electrical and electronic equipment. Their patented HEXFET^® power MOSFETs, IGBTs and HVICs make IR the world leader in power conversion components. IR's technological advances improve the performance and energy efficiency of electronic and electrical equipment in automotive, consumer, computer/peripheral, industrial, lighting, telecommunications and government/space applications.