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by Schiendelman 489 days ago
No that's okay, thank you for the pointer in the right direction!

It doesn't look to me like anything out there can take voltage from 48v to 2-3v; at least not obviously.

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https://www.digikey.com/en/products/detail/texas-instruments...

There should be plenty. 48-54 VDC is the standard for OCP powershelf designs. Hyperscalers such as Google have been working for nearly two decades now to eliminate voltage conversion steps. When I left, the power plane within the server PCB ran at the busbar voltage, which could float up to 54VDC. Given this, I'd expect them to convert from 48-54VDC down to 3.3 directly or at most something like 5VDC and then use smaller VRs near components such as ram and cpu.