It’s because of diamond’s high heat conductivity. The AI chips run too hot for traditional copper heat sinks to keep them cool.

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    14 days ago

    Yeah, according to this article it says they use a diamond wafer on the CPU, but there is current research into getting the diamond as close to, or even directly on the silicon.