EDITOR'S NOTE: This article is based on a presentation delivered at Thermal Live Fall 2025 by Mark MacDonald, Thermal Technologist at Ventiva, where he outlined how electrohydrodynamic (EHD) air movers — branded as the Ionic Cooling Engine (ICE) — are redefining thermal system architecture. For decades, electronics cooling has relied on mechanical blowers. Bearings spin, … [Read more...]
Johnson Controls to Acquire Alloy Enterprises
Johnson Controls, a global technology leader in energy efficiency, decarbonization, thermal management and mission-critical performance, has signed an agreement to acquire Alloy Enterprises, a Boston-based company specializing in a next-generation thermal management platform for high-performance data centers and other mission critical industrial applications. The move will … [Read more...]
Highlights From the 19th ASME InterPACK Conference
The 2025 International Technical Conference and Exhibition on Packaging and Integration of Electronic and Photonic Microsystems (InterPACK 2025) was held from October 28–30, 2025, at the Hotel Fera Anaheim, a DoubleTree by Hilton, in Anaheim, California. Hosted by the ASME Electronic and Photonic Packaging Division (EPPD), the conference served as a premier forum for advancing … [Read more...]
Silicone-Free Thermal Gap Pads for Optical and Datacom Systems
Editorial Note The following transcript is adapted from a presentation delivered by Henkel at Thermal Live Fall 2025. It is shared here to provide readers with access to the technical discussion in written form. For the complete presentation experience, including slides and audience Q&A, the full session is available to watch on demand. Introduction In this … [Read more...]
Data Center Cooling Options
Modern data centers require advanced cooling solutions to operate at peak performance. As one of the most rapidly growing industries in the world, data centers are changing how we develop new cooling technology at a record pace. The data center market is projected to continue growing by 8.5% per year over the next five years, to over $600 billion by 2029.* Artificial … [Read more...]
