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Immersion or direct-to-chip: how to decide

Five inputs decide a thermal architecture: hardware generation, density target, water availability, serviceability and site conditions. This piece works through each, and states where immersion stops being the right answer. This piece is part of CoralDC's twelve-month editorial programme. The URL, evidence standard and named author are fixed now, and the research and platform pages the piece draws on are linked below so the underlying material can be read in the meantime.

Immersion and direct-to-chip cooling represented as parallel paths.
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Forthcoming analysis

Pillar content. Maintained rather than dated. Last updated 20 August 2026. Author: Vikas Chauhan. Type: Technical.

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