Arista Networks, Inc.

Ernest Mason Thurlow

Robert Morris Wilcox

Richard Neville Hibbs

Youngbae Park

Tiffany Doria

Tiong Khai Soo

Zidong Lin

Jose Manuel Ochoa Castellanos

A switch system including a plurality of pluggable modules, a plurality of cages housing the plurality of pluggable modules, and a host printed circuit board (PCB). The system is designed to improve airflow around the host PCB to facilitate cooling. The cages may be designed to have airflow openings on a bottom surface thereof (facing towards the host PCB). The pluggable modules may be designed to have a heat sink on an external lower surface (facing towards the host PCB), which may be in the form of external fins. The host PCB may be designed to have cut-outs in a front portion thereof. The cooperation of the, and the airflow openings, heat sinks, and cut-outs create improved airflow for cooling of the host PCB.

Pluggable module and cage for improving airflow in network switch system

A processing unit disposed within a compute unit, where the compute unit includes a printed circuit board (PCB) that includes an integrated circuit; a first thermal management device, that includes a first vapor chamber thermally conductively coupled to a first side of the integrated circuit; and a first heatsink thermally conductively coupled to the first vapor chamber; and a second thermal management device, that includes a second vapor chamber; and a second heatsink thermally conductively coupled to the second vapor chamber, where the second thermal management device is thermally conductively coupled to the first thermal management device; where the PCB is interposed between the first thermal management device and the second thermal management device.

Systems for providing thermal management to integrated circuits

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Ernest Mason Thurlow