There are many technologies that catch our attention when they are presented, either because they seek to revolutionize a part of the market or because they are extremely new and even expensive in certain aspects. This time, we have been very surprised by the proposal of an emerging company from the United States, which seeks to achieve the best refrigeration for cards graphics at an industrial level, since data centers are greatly suffering from problems related to temperatures in AI-powered hardware, and in this case they are developing a cooling technology diamond for these components.
Cooling technologies manage to offer users and companies the ability to achieve the best possible performance, since the biggest problem we can face when using high-power hardware is the heat it generates, often making it necessary to invest. too much in refrigeration. The solution that the company Akash Systems is looking for would greatly reduce this problem, since the graphics would go from being practically at the temperature limit to being able to have a much wider margin by reducing the temperature between 10 and 20 degrees, which would mean everything a milestone in knowing what it costs to reduce server hardware temperatures.
The next step for industrial graphics cards would be to incorporate diamond-based cooling
The need for companies to reduce the temperature at which their data centers operate is increasing, and we have seen on several occasions how, even Microsoft, has to allocate two-thirds of what a single server occupies oriented to AI refrigeration only. This could change a lot in the coming years, since thanks to the United States CHIPS law that offers financing to increase the country’s technological capacity, many companies are being able to carry out their most expensive projects.
The last one that we have known and that could completely change the operation of servers comes from Akash Systems, a company dedicated to creating cooling systems that is making every possible effort to increase its production operations of semiconductors refrigerated by diamond. In this case, these types of systems created to reduce temperature are not related to a simple thermal paste with nanodiamond technology, since it is one of the materials that offers the best thermal conductivity, but goes further.
The company’s goal is to be able to create its own wafers, that is, a process in which they buy a GPU chip from a supplier and then mount it on their own GaN-on-diamond printed circuit board, which would reduce temperatures. at which the chip operates between 10 and 20 degrees. To do this, they claim that they have managed to fuse synthetic diamond with conductive materials such as gallium nitride (GaN) to use it as a semiconductor, although they do not detail how they have achieved it, so for now, we will have to see how their new project evolves. between hands.
