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Microsoft claims a 'breakthrough' in AI chip cooling


It says it could lead to three times better cooling than current methods.

AI is an enormous energy drain, contributing to greenhouse gas emissions at a time when the planet desperately needs progress in the opposite direction. "If you're still relying heavily on traditional cold plate technology [in five years], you're stuck," Microsoft program manager Sashi Majety is quoted as saying in the company's announcement. Microsoft says the technique can reduce the maximum silicon temperature rise inside a GPU by 65 percent.

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