October 11, 2024
Semiconductor Engineering

Chip Industry Week In Review

Dow and Carbice announced a strategic partnership to provide a thermal interface material (TIM) product, leveraging Dow’s silicone with Carbice’s carbon nanotube technology. TIMs have been used sparingly in advanced-node chips and in high-utilization applications such as AI due to their high cost, but as scaling continues the price of cooling is going up.

Originally published on Semiconductor Engineering here.