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緯穎科技服務股份有限公司 (Wiwynn) 是緯創資通的子公司，專注於提供超大型資料中心 (Hyperscale Data Center) 及雲端基礎架構 (Cloud Infrastructure)各項產品及系統的解決方案。緯穎科技的成立目標除了成為客戶最佳的創新性技術服務合作夥伴 (Technology Service Provider)，並期望與客戶在業務合作上達成雙贏的局面 (We Win)。 在這個廣泛運用雲計算的新時代，緯穎科技瞭解客戶未來的需求在於具備高效率低耗能的大規模運算及儲存能力、高速資料傳輸及軟硬體整合的解決方案。藉由傳承緯創資通豐富的創新設計技術，以及多年的製造經驗，緯穎科技的頂尖團隊為客戶提供巨型資料中心、運營商及企業的雲端運算解決方案，其中包括高性價比的伺服器、儲存設備、網路系統、機房基礎設備及軟硬體整合的私有雲解決方案。

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而這次投資的主角LiquidStack

• LiquidStack官方網站： https://liquidstack.com/

LiquidStack pioneered 2-phase immersion cooling and holds multiple awards for building the world’s most efficient data centers. From Micro Data Centers to hyperscale sites, we have the experience to deliver your project on time and on budget.

Formerly known as Allied Control Limited (ACL), LiquidStack has evolved to become the world’s largest supplier of liquid cooling – larger than all of our competitors combined.

LiquidStack這家公司想要解決的問題

Data centers face mounting pressure to increase IT power density while minimizing energy and water use. The era of superficial “green-washing” is over. Prominent data center owners and operators have committed billions of dollars to achieve carbon-neutral and carbon-negative sustainability goals.

But the pressure to drastically improve energy efficiency doesn’t stop at the data center. Chip manufacturers also face increasing pressure to create more dense and powerful processors. Unfortunately, they have hit insurmountable constraints imposed by the limitations of air cooling, even when supplementing air cooling with some forms of liquid cooling.

2-phase immersion cooling removes these barriers for the entire data center ecosystem, from data center designers/owners/operators to hardware and semiconductor companies. This represents an inflection point for the industry and opens up possibilities not just in terms of data center design and operation, but also in terms of what computing can accomplish (AI, IoT, Big Data, Edge, etc.)

2-phase immersion cooling is the gateway and enabler of the future of computing. It will positively impact technology leveraged by the world’s largest corporations and everyday people accessing cloud services at the edge. The future is now – the future is 2-phase immersion cooling.

基本上我覺得是個大Data Center會需要的技術。算是緯穎進一步掌握關鍵技術的來源，確保有硬體規格之外的獨特性。