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March 22, 2006
Asetek gets more cash to chill hot chips
Asetek, a Danish manufacturer of chip cooling systems, said today that it topped up its recently announced €4M venture round with an additional €2M in capital from KT Venture Group.
Asetek makes heat pipes or chip cooling systems. It is known among the Red Bull-slugging PC gamers and developers that use its high-end (read high-priced) bulkier products to prevent their overclocked central processing unit (CPU) from burning out.
The coffee mug-sized VapoChill unit on a motherboard.
But it now has a mass market product, the size of a coffee mug and the firm claims sales of a few thousand units a month via its Internet site.
The VCs invested because they believe that Asetek can keep shrinking the units so that vendors of silent, small form factor and home theater PCs will adopt the technology.
Like the name says, Hush Technologies, makes quite computer gear for the living room.
Competitors are also racing to reduce size, such as Zalman. And PC makers, such as Germany's Hush Technologies are also incorporating innovative heat sink technology.
KT Venture invests for KLA-Tencor, a major semiconductor equipment supplier. It said in statement that its knowledge of the industry indicates that there is a shift when it comes to cooling CPUs and that Asetek has "the cost-effective solution to this need".
In other words, the heat that chips produce is not being dealt with by the chip manufacturers and traditional fan/sink units cannot handle the thermal load (plus they’re noisy) therefore a plug in or add on device like Aseteks has a nice-sized opportunity.
Read - Asetek KT Venture Announcement (press release)
Posted on March 22, 2006 01:07 PM | Posted to Hardware | Semiconductors | Permalink
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