New thermal material provides 72% better cooling than conventional paste
Thanks to a mechanochemically engineered combination of the liquid metal alloy Galinstan and ceramic aluminum nitride, this thermal interface material, or TIM,
The startup currently has 8,000 customers with around half of them in France. Most of its remaining customers are spread across other European countries. “We focus on mid-sized companies, with an annual revenue of €5 million to €10 million on average — and up to €500 million,” Beyet said.
“We’ve already reached a break-even position on a cash basis for this quarter. So we didn’t need to raise any additional funds to continue our development. But we believe our market is huge,” he added.
Why it matters: Data centers are hot, both figuratively and literally. As we feed more and more data and processing demands into these server farms, keeping them from overheating is becoming an increasingly expensive and energy-intensive challenge. But researchers at the University of Texas may have a cool solution – a new thermal interface material that can whisk heat away from processors better than the likes of Thermalright and Thermal Grizzly.
Thanks to a mechanochemically engineered combination of the liquid metal alloy Galinstan and ceramic aluminum nitride, this thermal interface material, or TIM, outperformed the best commercial liquid metal cooling products by a staggering 56-72% in lab tests. It allowed dissipation of up to 2,760 watts of heat from just a 16 square centimeter area.
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