xMEMS extends micro cooling fan-on-a-chip tech to AI data centers

xMEMS Labs, a pioneer of monolithic MEMS-based chips, announced that its innovative µCooling fan-on-a-chip platform will be expanded to AI data centers. These micro fans are all-silicon devices which are made from the company’s Micro Electromechanical Systems (MEMS) technology, where the tiny mechanical structures are crafted out of silicon on semiconductor chips. xMEMS said it will bring the industry’s first in-module active thermal management solution to high-performance optical transceivers. Originally developed for compact mobile devices, xMEMS µCooling now provides targeted, hyper- localized active cooling for dense, thermally-challenged environments inside 400G, 800G, and 1.6T optical transceivers — a critical yet underserved category in next-gen AI infrastructure. Unlike conventional cooling approaches that target high-power (kilowatt) processors and GPUs, µCooling focuses on smaller, thermally stressed components that large-scale cooling systems can’t reach, such as opt ... Read full article.