I'm thinking the acrylic case was just to demonstrate it, so you can see the mineral oil. If they go with a metal heat spreader container in the final version, I think it would do well in high density servers. I think it's a cool take on cooling (spreading it out more evenly with the oil rather than thermal pads). A lot of people think DIMMs don't get hot at all but it does and upcoming DDR5 will have the voltage controller on each DIMM. The more stable the temperature, the better in terms of longevity and errors, I believe. If they don't charge a huge amount for this (for whatever reason), I can see it being adopted. Probably the only time mineral oil can be used more practically.

Posted on Jan 10th 2018, 3:40 Reply