When AI Doesn’t Sleep, Neither Does Your Storage 

By Mike Housholder, VP & GM, Thermal Management, xMEMS Labs  For nearly two decades, the storage industry chased a single number: speed. Sequential read and write benchmarks climbed year after year, and on paper, consumer SSDs have never looked better. A modern laptop can move gigabytes in seconds; a modern smartphone can capture, edit, and […]

The Beginning of Active Cooling in Smartphones 

By Mike Housholder, VP and GM of the Thermal Management Business Unit, xMEMS Labs The smartphone industry is obsessed with AI. Every product launch promises more on-device intelligence, larger models, smarter assistants, and richer multimodal experiences. Yet the biggest obstacle facing the next generation of smartphones isn’t AI itself. It’s heat. For more than a decade, the […]