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AI runs on chips but is built on aluminium

Frankie Ho
Frankie Ho • 8 min read
AI runs on chips but is built on aluminium
Soon Lian supplies high-grade aluminium for precision engineering and semiconductor manufacturing applications. Photo: Soon Lian's website.
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If chips and algorithms are the brains behind AI, aluminium is the metal quietly holding everything else together. While it does not feature in semiconductors themselves, the lightweight metal is embedded across the infrastructure that supports AI.

Touted for their durability and strength, aluminium alloys are well-suited for applications ranging from manufacturing equipment to server hardware and cooling systems used in data centres.

As AI workloads intensify, computing hardware becomes more densely packed, pushing data centre operators to expand infrastructure and upgrade cooling systems to handle the growing heat load.

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