For many years, CPUs and GPUs got by with just using a smidge of power. It's a very different story these days, and the AI boom has forced processor designs to consume vast amounts of power. To help shift all this heat away, some companies are creating such complex-looking thermal solutions that they could easily pass off as works of art.
One such example is Alloy Enterprises' liquid cold plate for Nvidia's H100 AI superchip (via SemiAccurate), but what sets this apart from the crowd is how it's made. Most cold plates, aka water blocks, are milled from several billets of metal that get bolted together to create a chamber. Alloy Enterprises teamed up with nTop to use the latter's modelling software to make something so intricate that milling or casting it would be impossible.
