Will Heat Limit the Future of AI Glasses?

Always-on AI meets the realities of skin-contact thermals – and the need for a new micro-cooling architecture Every computing platform eventually encounters a physical boundary. For AI glasses, that boundary is heat – and it sits directly on the human face. The category’s ambition is clear: always-on assistants, real-time translation, contextual awareness layered seamlessly onto […]

Why Your Next Smartphone Needs Micro-Cooling

The AI revolution is creating a thermal crisis at the computing edge. For more than a decade, smartphones have been engineered around a little-discussed assumption: that the heat they generate can be managed passively. Which is to say, without fans. As mobile processors became more powerful, manufacturers responded with increasingly sophisticated ways of dissipating heat […]

The Hidden Cooling Bottleneck Inside Liquid-Cooled AI Data Centers

Liquid Cooling Solves One Problem – and Reveals Another AI data centers are being redesigned around a simple physical reality: modern GPUs and CPUs now dissipate heat at levels that air cooling can no longer manage efficiently. As processor power climbs past the kilowatt mark, liquid cooling has become a practical requirement. Cold plates and […]

µCooling White Paper: Why Passive Cooling Can’t Keep Up with Edge AI

The Case for Active Solid-State Cooling in Smartphones, SSDs, and AI Glasses Executive Summary The AI compute revolution is creating a thermal crisis at the edge. Smartphones running on-device large language models throttle GPU clocks by up to 40% within 90 seconds. NVMe SSDs under sustained AI inference workloads lose 25% or more of their […]

The Unknown Tech Behind a New Generation of Edge AI Devices

By: Mike Housholder, VP of Marketing and Business Development at xMEMS Labs, Inc. This article was originally published on Unite.AI. You may not have heard of piezoMEMS — but novel applications of this tiny, game-changing technology are poised to reshape the future of AI at the edge. In 2023, researchers estimated that using generative artificial intelligence (genAI) […]

Edge AI Meets Next-Gen Cooling: The Breakthrough of Silicon-Based Micro-Cooling Fans

By: Thomas S. Tarter, Principal Member of the Technical Staff, xMEMS Labs, Inc. MEMS-based miniature-fan technology can provide improved thermal performance, increased reliability, and reduced noise for advanced processors. Compact mobile devices are desperate for more efficient cooling systems. Already, 5G connectivity, spatial computing, high-resolution video, and gaming are testing the limits of current cooling […]

Sound from Ultrasound

By: Robb Zimmerman, xMEMS Labs, Inc. A new ultrasonic MEMS speaker improves audio performance and reduces size by radically altering the way sound is produced in speakers As we approach the 100th anniversary of the invention of the dynamic driver speaker, it’s as good a time as ever to reflect on a ubiquitous and familiar, […]

The Nirvana of 2-Way Headphones

By: Neal Breitbarth, Audio Applications Director, xMEMS Labs, Inc. Thanks to solid-state micro speaker technology, it is now possible to build headphones that sound better and cost less These days, even the most basic, compact, affordable bookshelf speakers have multiple drivers. Advances in driver design, plus sufficient room in speaker enclosures, have for years allowed manufacturers to […]

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