As consumers demand smaller, faster computer systems, OEM design engineers race to create systems with compact, more powerful microprocessors and chipsets. However, these compressed designs provide engineers with a new enemy…heat. In minutes, densely packaged microprocessors or compact electronic systems can generate enough heat to destroy years worth of work. A design engineer … [Read more...]
Report: Thermal Management Technologies to Reach $8.6 Billion by 2015
The global market for Electronic Thermal Management is forecast to reach $8.6 billion by 2015, according to market research company Electronics.ca Publications. Factors driving growth include developments in technology and marked increase in the production of miniaturized microprocessors. Further, increased use of mobile devices is likely to impact market growth. In the … [Read more...]
Intel® Atom™ Processor-Based Platform Uses Significantly Lower Power
Intel Corporation has unveiled its newest Intel® Atom™ processor-based platform. The technology package provides significantly lower power consumption and prepares the company to target a range of computing devices, including high-end smartphones, tablets and other mobile handheld products. The platform has been repartitioned to include the Intel Atom processor Z6xx, which … [Read more...]
Toward Liquid-Cooled Computers
Experts say a new technique called superwicking could provide a better way to cool computer hardware and could help remove one of the biggest barriers to a new generation of high-powered microprocessors. And in the meantime, it could prove a boon to tiny fluid-based sensors. Optical physicists Chunlei Guo and Anatoliy Vorobyev of the University of Rochester in New York state … [Read more...]
Packaging Challenges For High Heat Flux Devices
Introduction It comes as no surprise to anyone in our industry that device power levels are increasing to support customer expectations of ever greater functionality and performance. The greatest thermal challenges in computing occur in the packaging of processors. This results not only from the fact that processors typically have the largest overall power dissipation in a … [Read more...]
