SANTA CLARA, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Nov 14, 2024--
The recently announced xMEMS XMC-2400 µCooling™ chip, the first-ever all-silicon, active micro-cooling air pump for small, thin electronics devices and next-generation artificial intelligence (AI) solutions, has been named a CES Innovation Awards ® 2025 Honoree in the best in computer hardware and components category.
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The CES Innovation Awards program is an annual competition honoring outstanding design and engineering in 33 consumer technology product categories. The program received a record number of submissions – over 3,400. The announcement comes ahead of CES 2025, the world’s most powerful technology event, happening Jan. 7-10 in Las Vegas, NV.
The xMEMS XMC-2400 active micro-cooling (µCooling) chip allows manufacturers, for the first time, to integrate active cooling into smartphones, tablets, XR, smart glasses, cameras, SSDs, and other advanced mobile devices with a silent, vibration-free, solid-state chip that measures just 1-millimeter thin.
“We’re honored for our revolutionary XMC-2400 ‘fan-on-a-chip’ to be recognized by the CES Innovation Awards for the legitimate breakthrough that it is,” said Joseph Jiang, xMEMS CEO and Co-Founder. “Up until now, thermal management of thin, small form-factor electronics has been a massive challenge for manufacturers and consumers. XMC-2400 is poised to address those challenges and it comes at a critical moment in the industry – as ultramobile devices are running more processor-intensive AI applications.”
Measuring just 9.26 x 7.6 x 1.08 millimeters and weighing less than 150 milligrams, the XMC-2400 is 96 percent smaller and lighter than non-silicon-based, active-cooling alternatives. A single XMC-2400 chip can move up to 39 cubic centimeters of air per second with 1,000Pa of back pressure. The all-silicon solution offers semiconductor reliability, part-to-part uniformity, high robustness, and is IP58 rated.
xMEMS will be demonstrating the XMC-2400 at CES in The Venetian Suite 29-235 in Las Vegas January 7-10, 2025. Click here to schedule an appointment.
For more information about xMEMS and its μCooling solutions, visit xmems.com. For hi-res imagery, click here.
The CES Innovation Awards 2025 honorees, including product descriptions and photos, can be found at CES.tech/innovation. An elite panel of industry expert judges, including members of the media, designers, engineers, and more, reviewed submissions based on innovation, engineering and functionality, aesthetic, and design.
About xMEMS Labs, Inc.
Founded in January 2018, xMEMS Labs is the “X” factor in MEMS with the world’s most innovative piezoMEMS platform. It began by delivering the world’s first solid-state True MEMS speakers for TWS and other personal audio devices and evolved its substantial IP to produce the world’s first μCooling fan on a chip for smartphones and other thin, performance-oriented devices. xMEMS has over 200 granted patents worldwide for its technology. For more information, visit https://xmems.com.
Source: xMEMS Labs, Inc.
DHAKA, Bangladesh (AP) — Huge crowds flocked to the area outside Bangladesh’s national parliament building in the capital Wednesday to attend the funeral prayers for former Prime Minister Khaleda Zia , who died a day earlier at the age of 80 after a prolonged illness.
Waves of people from Dhaka and elsewhere had been streaming in toward the venue on Manik Mia Avenue, outside the parliament building, since early morning. Witnesses said many cried, calling Zia their “mother” as they arrived at the venue, with some traveling overnight from rural areas to join the prayers. In neighborhoods kilometers (miles) away, crowds also spilled into major streets to pray.
Zia’s funerals were expected to draw hundreds of thousands of her supporters and people from across the country while dignitaries from India, Pakistan, Sri Lanka and Nepal also arrived in Dhaka, with local media saying foreign envoys and representatives from 32 countries joined the funeral ceremony. She will be buried beside the grave of her husband, a former president who was assassinated in a military coup in 1981, in a park outside the parliament building later Wednesday.
Zia came to politics after her husband’s death and rose to prominence as an opposition leader during a nine-year movement against a former military dictator who was ousted in a mass uprising in 1990. Zia became prime minister for the first time in 1991, with a landslide victory in a democratically held national election as the country introduced parliamentary democracy. She was the leader of her Bangladesh Nationalist Party till her death.
Zia, who was known for having a calm demeanor, maintained a strong political rivalry with her archrival and former Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina. Hasina, who heads the Bangladesh Awami League party, ruled the country for 15 years before she was ousted in 2024 in a mass uprising.
Zia's coffin, draped in Bangladesh’s national flag, was carried in a van escorted by security officials and party supporters from the hospital to her residence and then to the funeral venue.
Authorities said about 10,000 security officials including soldiers would be deployed around the venue to maintain order on Wednesday.
Bangladesh’s interim government headed by Nobel Peace Prize laureate Muhammad Yunus announced a three-day mourning and declared Wednesday a public holiday to facilitate the funerals. Flags were kept at half-staff Wednesday across the country to show respect to Zia, the country’s first female prime minister who served two full terms and another brief term.
Zia’s eldest son, Tarique Rahman, is the acting head of her Bangladesh Nationalist Party, which is the front-runner in the nation’s next elections in February.
Hasina, who has been in exile in India since Aug. 5, 2024, was sentenced to death in November on charges of crimes against humanity involving last year’s uprising.
FILE - Bangladesh's main opposition Bangladesh Nationalist Party chief and former Prime Minister Khaleda Zia looks upwards as she attends a rally of her supporters outside their party headquarters in Dhaka, Bangladesh, Monday, March 12, 2012. (AP Photo/Aijaz Rahi, File)
FILE - Khaleda Zia takes an oath of office as the prime minister in Dhaka, Bangladesh, Oct. 10, 2001. (AP Photo/Pavel Rahman, File)
FILE - Bangladesh's former prime minister and Bangladesh Nationalist Party leader Khaleda Zia, center, leaves court after a hearing in Dhaka, Bangladesh, Aug. 10, 2016. (AP Photo, File)
