The THERMI award is intended to recognize a recipient's history of contributions to crucial thermal issues affecting the performance of semiconductor devices and systems. The voting body of past THERMI winners and the current year General Chair are pleased to present the 2012 THERMI to Bahgat G. Sammakia, Ph.D., Professor of Mechanical and Materials Engineering, State … [Read more...]
Interview with SEMI-THERM 28 General Chair
Listen to an interview with SEMI-THERM's General Chair Herman Chu, Principal Chair at Cisco, by Graham Bell of SEMI-THERM Media Sponsor PCBCafe.com. Herman talks about the inflection point we are undergoing right now with thermal demands of electronic systems, and how the SEMI-THERM conference will address those challenges. Listen now. … [Read more...]
Researchers Find Spider Silk Conducts Heat as Well as Metals
Xinwei Wang and his research team at Iowa State University found that spider silks - particularly the draglines that anchor webs in place - conduct heat better than most materials, including silicon, aluminum and pure iron. Spider silk also conducts heat 1,000 times better than woven silkworm silk and 800 times better than other organic tissues. Spider silk conducts heat at … [Read more...]
Data Center Technology Controls Temp by Moving Software Workloads
Facebook is exploring a technology that controls temperatures in the data center by automatically moving software workloads among servers according to the air pressure on either side of each machine. The system uses a load balancer to shift tasks among servers based on their particular “cooling needs,” which are related to air pressure in the data center. The idea is to keep … [Read more...]
Ideas Sought for Better Electronics Cooling Technology for Helicopters
A helicopter corporation is sponsoring a contest, asking entrepreneurs and companies that are willing to establish a spinoff at a new innovation center in Stamford to propose technology concepts that could be used on helicopters. Chris Van Buiten, vice president of Sikorsky Innovations, gave an example of a better electronics cooling technology, which could reduce the number … [Read more...]
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