Copper-Carbon Composites
Artificial intelligence runs on watts, and watts become heat. As accelerator power densities climb past what bulk copper can handle, the binding constraint on compute is shifting from the transistor to the heat path — and whoever moves heat better will hold a chokepoint on the AI economy.
This brief examines copper–carbon composites as the route past that thermal wall: why the carbon's spectacular conductivity stays locked away until the copper–carbon interface is engineered, how four integration architectures map to real cooling problems, exactly how much a graded stack buys you in air, and where the same materials win in sealed, weight-critical systems — from data-center cold plates to spacecraft and defense electronics.
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