Keeping Chips Cool with PiezoMEMS Modules

June 12, 2025

xMEMS' XMC-2400 µCooling module is a silicon-based, active cooling system.

Related To:

xMEMS Labs has turned its silicon-based micro speakers into something cool. The xMEMS XMC-2400 µCooling chip is an active micro-cooling fan that fits in places where a conventional cooling fan is too large (Fig. 1).

1. The xMEMS module includes louvered silicon MEMS devices sandwiched between openings to allow for air movement.

It targets ultra-mobile embedded devices, especially those that become hotter due to incorporating systems like artificial-intelligence (AI) accelerators. It could also be used in small modules such as M.2 solid-state disks (Fig. 2) or AI accelerators where adding a conventional cooling system would be difficult if not impossible.

2. The xMEMS cooling module can used with NVMe solid-state drives to improve thermal operating conditions.

xMEMS XMC-2400 in Action

More at Sensors Converge 2025

Automotive

Third-Gen Imaging Radar Processors Built for Level 2+ to 4 ADAS

NXP’s third-generation radar processors deliver up to twice the processing power versus the previous generation.

About the Author

William G. Wong | Senior Content Director - Electronic Design and Microwaves & RF

I am Editor of Electronic Design focusing on embedded, software, and systems. As Senior Content Director, I also manage Microwaves & RF and I work with a great team of editors to provide engineers, programmers, developers and technical managers with interesting and useful articles and videos on a regular basis. Check out our free newsletters to see the latest content.

You can send press releases for new products for possible coverage on the website. I am also interested in receiving contributed articles for publishing on our website. Use our template and send to me along with a signed release form.

Check out my blog, AltEmbedded on Electronic Design, as well as his latest articles on this site that are listed below.

You can visit my social media via these links:

I earned a Bachelor of Electrical Engineering at the Georgia Institute of Technology and a Masters in Computer Science from Rutgers University. I still do a bit of programming using everything from C and C++ to Rust and Ada/SPARK. I do a bit of PHP programming for Drupal websites. I have posted a few Drupal modules.

I still get a hand on software and electronic hardware. Some of this can be found on our Kit Close-Up video series. You can also see me on many of our TechXchange Talk videos. I am interested in a range of projects from robotics to artificial intelligence.