1,100W peak from a eighth brick converter Flex Power Modules has created an eighth brick intermediate bus dc-dc converter series that can deliver 600 to 800W continuously along with up to 1,100W for up to a second. The high peak is for running CPUs such as Intel’s Ice Lakein datacom and data center applications. Called BMR492, it “delivers a power level that was previously only made possible in a quarter-brick format”, claimed company business development director Olle Hellgren. Eighth brick is a 58.4 x 22.7 x 12.7mm industry standard format. The through-hole mounting base-plated converters have a standard DOSA pinout, including the 7pin digital header for PMBus.