Powering Progress: Murata's Role in Advancing OCP Innovation

Author: Kevin Gerald, Senior Applications Marketing Manager, Murata Collection: 2025 OCP Global Summit - Expo Hall Sessions

Summary

Murata, a multi-billion-dollar Japanese components company with over 40 product groups, presents its end-to-end power delivery portfolio for AI data centers spanning AC input through to processor-level power. The company has been designing power supply systems for OCP for approximately nine years, covering power shelves (AC to 50V or 54V), DC-to-DC converters (400V to 50V in the 5-10 kW range), server-level 50V-to-12V converters, and under-processor voltage regulators. Murata supports both ORv2 and ORv3 standards and has adapted designs across form factors (19-inch and 21-inch shelves) in response to customer needs including NVIDIA's 19-inch requirement.

Key product highlights include an ORv3-compliant power supply delivering 3.6 kW in a 68 mm width (originally designed for 54V, adapted to 50.5V for ORv3 compliance), an ORv3 HPR shelf at 33 kW with six units in a 67 mm package fitting both 19-inch and 21-inch shelves, and an immersion cooling deployment with Submer featuring 15 power supplies in a 3OU shelf delivering 54 kW submerged in dielectric fluid. The presentation also covers Murata's broader component portfolio including MLCCs (multi-layer ceramic capacitors, their founding product since 1946), advanced thermal elements, embedded components for multi-die architectures, thermistors for precise thermal measurement, and lithium-ion battery cells for BBU (battery backup unit) applications in data centers.