Xmems gets the heat out of chips with tiny fans.
Xmems gets the heat out of chips with tiny fans.
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Xmems Labs introduces tiny fans on chips for micro-cooling

  • Posted byby Dean Takahashi
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Xmems Labs unveiled its “fan on a chip” micro-cooling components for actively cooling smartphones, tablets and other mobile devices.

These are all-silicon devices — just a millimeter thick — much like the all-silicon micro speakers that the company makes using Micro Electromechanical Systems (MEMS) technology, where the tiny mechanical structures are crafted out of silicon on semiconductor chips, said Joseph Jiang, Xmems CEO, in an interview with VentureBeat. I last spoke with him in July 2020 when the company was introducing its speaker chips, which have now starting to ship in the marketplace.

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Dean Takahashi

Dean Takahashi is editorial director for GamesBeat. He has been a tech journalist since 1988, and he has covered games as a beat since 1996. He was lead writer for GamesBeat at VentureBeat from 2008 to April 2025. Prior to that, he wrote for the San Jose Mercury News, the Red Herring, the Wall Street Journal, the Los Angeles Times, and the Dallas Times-Herald. He is the author of two books, "Opening the Xbox" and "The Xbox 360 Uncloaked." He organizes the annual GamesBeat Next, GamesBeat Summit and GamesBeat Insider Series: Hollywood and Games conferences and is a frequent speaker at gaming and tech events. He lives in the San Francisco Bay Area.