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Wavester retweeted
Replying to @asianinvestors
I'm diving deeper into the thermal management stack and gaining conviction in my latest long: $APRTEC
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Wavester retweeted
Does anyone know about $APRTEC. Datacenter cooling company. May have a technology advantage. Thanks Johan!
$APRTEC is a Swedish thermal management company validated in space by NASA and ESA, with a global tech customer integrating its EHD technology into chip-level product development. Every watt of AI compute becomes heat. In 3D-packaged chips that heat is trapped inside the package, and rack-level cooling cannot reach it. The solution requires a pump small enough to operate at microchannel scale with no moving parts. Mechanical pumps have a physical lower bound on miniaturization. Electrohydrodynamic conduction pumps do not. APR has spent 15 years developing EHD micropumps for highly demanding thermal environments, including spacecraft qualified by ESA and NASA. Space qualification imposes reliability requirements that are among the most demanding in any industry and are generally more stringent than those found in commercial data center environments. An unnamed global tech company has now integrated APR’s EHD pump into its product development and placed a pilot production order. That moves the relationship beyond pure evaluation. The confirmatory event is a volume order from the tech customer. It would move APR from a component in a competitive cooling layer to a potential node in near-chip thermal management. Risks: •The tech customer remains unnamed and the volume decision is not yet taken. The relationship could stall. •APR’s space and defense channel runs through ZIHET, which controls production, distribution and customer relationships. The economics accruing to APR remain uncertain. •Core EHD conduction pumping is prior art from 2003. Patent protection covers specific implementations, not the principle. A well-funded competitor could develop an alternative path. Position: Long, small and a volume order from the tech customer would materially change the size of this position.
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$VRT has added $75B in market value over the past 12 months. The market has decided cooling is infrastructure. What it hasn't decided yet is which part of the cooling problem is actually solved. This article maps the thermal stack and where value may migrate next. It's also why I'm long $SHT and $APRTEC.
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Guineapig™ retweeted
$APRTEC is a Swedish thermal management company validated in space by NASA and ESA, with a global tech customer integrating its EHD technology into chip-level product development. Every watt of AI compute becomes heat. In 3D-packaged chips that heat is trapped inside the package, and rack-level cooling cannot reach it. The solution requires a pump small enough to operate at microchannel scale with no moving parts. Mechanical pumps have a physical lower bound on miniaturization. Electrohydrodynamic conduction pumps do not. APR has spent 15 years developing EHD micropumps for highly demanding thermal environments, including spacecraft qualified by ESA and NASA. Space qualification imposes reliability requirements that are among the most demanding in any industry and are generally more stringent than those found in commercial data center environments. An unnamed global tech company has now integrated APR’s EHD pump into its product development and placed a pilot production order. That moves the relationship beyond pure evaluation. The confirmatory event is a volume order from the tech customer. It would move APR from a component in a competitive cooling layer to a potential node in near-chip thermal management. Risks: •The tech customer remains unnamed and the volume decision is not yet taken. The relationship could stall. •APR’s space and defense channel runs through ZIHET, which controls production, distribution and customer relationships. The economics accruing to APR remain uncertain. •Core EHD conduction pumping is prior art from 2003. Patent protection covers specific implementations, not the principle. A well-funded competitor could develop an alternative path. Position: Long, small and a volume order from the tech customer would materially change the size of this position.
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Replying to @borspicker
$APRTEC *😁
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Replying to @avkastly
Is corintis solution similar to that of $aprtec ?
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Cooling is now one of the main constraints on AI compute - direct cooling on chip is the future. Corintis have raised $24 million, adds Intel CEO Lip-Bu Tan to board reuters.com/business/chip-co… ~ 400m usd pre-money valuation. Interesting to follow Swedish $APRTEC.
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Guineapig™ retweeted
$APRTEC Vem är deras stora globala techkund? Jag vet inte... Spelar det någon roll? Vore intressant om det är SpaceX dock, saker som talar för spaceX: SpaceX har precis presenterat AI1 - deras första generations AI-datasatelliter för orbitala datacenter. Varje satellit ska hantera upp till 150 kW compute-effekt (jämförbart med en NVIDIA GB300-rack). De använder avancerad liquid cooling med stora deployable radiatorer (110 m²), redundanta pumping loops och liquid-cooling architecture. De säger att de bygger på befintlig Starlink V3-teknik men skalat upp rejält. Det här är relevant för APR tecnologies teknologi. APR:s roadtrip gick till Texas och Kalifornien - exakt där SpaceX har stora verksamheter (Starbase i Texas, Hawthorne i Kalifornien).
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