Microfluidic Cooling Design For Hotspots in Thermal Design Power Chips (Corintis)


A new technical paper titled "Glacierware: Hotspot-aware Microfluidic Cooling for High TDP Chips using Topology Optimization" was published by researchers at Corintis. Abstract: "The continuous increase in computational power of GPUs, essential for advancements in areas like artificial intelligence and data processing, is driving the adoption of liquid cooling in data centers. Skived copper... » read more

Technical Paper Round-Up: July 26


New technical papers added to Semiconductor Engineering’s library this week. [table id=41 /] Semiconductor Engineering is in the process of building this library of research papers. Please send suggestions (via comments section below) for what else you’d like us to incorporate. If you have research papers you are trying to promote, we will review them to see if they are a good fit f... » read more

Monolithic Microfluidic Cooling on a Functional CPU Running Real-World Benchmarks


New technical paper titled "Integrated Silicon Microfluidic Cooling of a High-Power Overclocked CPU for Efficient Thermal Management" is published by researchers at Georgia Tech and Microsoft. According to the abstract: "In this work, we use micropin-fins etched directly on the back of an Intel Core i7-8700K CPU and overclocked it to dissipate up to 215W of power while being cooled by room... » read more