Taiqing Li Zhuoyu: Deeply exploring the chip thermal management track in mainland China to help the computing power infrastructure be autonomously controllable

China News Service, Hangzhou, October 1 (Guo Qiyao) On October 1, although it was the holiday time, in the laboratory of Zhejiang Hangzhou Titanium Core Cooling Technology Co., Ltd., Taiqing Li Zhuoyu still led the team to conduct stability testing of multiple sets of chip cooling modules.

Li Zhuoyu said that in the past 20 years since he took root in mainland China, starting from handmade titanium alloy bicycles, then entering the field of automotive thermal management, and then continuing to delve into chip thermal management, every step of his entrepreneurial journey has stepped on the rhythm of the development of the times and industrial upgrading.

In 2008, hearing that there were vast development opportunities in the mainland, Li Zhuoyu quit his stable job in Taiwan and "landed" to start a business alone, promoting Taiwanese handmade titanium alloy bicycles in the mainland from scratch.

In 2014, Li Zhuoyu took over as the general manager of Zhejiang Songxin Automotive Air Conditioning Co., Ltd. and entered the field of automotive thermal management. Over the past few years, he has gradually established a foothold and the development of the enterprise has been relatively stable.

However, Li Zhuoyu felt unwilling to do so - "The core technology of high-end chip thermal management has been monopolized overseas for a long time. This is one of the key links that restricts the independent control of China's computing power infrastructure." Therefore, in 2019, Li Zhuoyu led the team to found the predecessor of Titanium Core Intelligent Cooling, entered the chip thermal management track, and started another entrepreneurial transformation.

"There is nothing easy about starting a business in hard technology. It is more about continuous investment, trial and error, and a long wait." In an interview, Li Zhuoyu mentioned that one winter, a key thermal management solution that had been repeatedly verified for several months found abnormal test data a week before mass production, and the entire batch of samples had to be overturned and restarted. After a night of deep thought, he further strengthened his original intention of starting a business and the significance of persistence: "Some things cannot only be based on short-term returns. If everyone quits in spite of difficulties, it will be difficult to truly establish many key capabilities, and some tracks will never have Chinese answers."

In 2022, Li Zhuoyu led the team to achieve independent breakthroughs in core technologies, creating original core technologies of active circulation thermosiphon and phase change liquid cooling, and obtained an invention patent from the China State Intellectual Property Office. Since then, the team has continued to promote the mature application of technology, allowing 3U air-cooled modules to achieve a heat dissipation capacity of more than 1500W, and developed high-power air-cooled standard products of greater than or equal to 800W.

After "landing" for nearly 20 years, from being alone to starting a family, the mainland has become Li Zhuoyu's "safe place."