Removing heat from increasingly high-performance hardware has emerged as a high priority for designers. Traditional methods like fans and heat sinks are proving to be inefficient, expensive, and ultimately ineffective. A new thermal management offering promises to deliver cost-effective passive cooling to upcoming generations of hardware.

Heat Is Now Enemy #1

After years of trumpeting the performance advantages of ever-faster processors and increasingly dense circuitry, the day of reckoning has arrived: today's hardware is too hot to handle. While overheating and exploding laptop batteries have garnered headlines in recent months, the controversy underscores just how critical the issue of heat management has become for all technologies.

Hardware vendors have responded by throwing bigger, higher-capacity fans at hotter circuitry. But this is a zero sum game: They're rapidly approaching the point where even the biggest fan will no longer be enough.

May the (Passive) Force Be with You

Celsia Technologies is taking a somewhat more passive approach to removing...