China’s Henan to fund diamond heat-dissipation research in 15th Five-Year Plan

Henan is treating diamond heat dissipation as an industrial-policy priority rather than a single lab project, bundling funding with lab infrastructure and company-academia commercialization. That matters because heat management is a recurring constraint in high-power electronics and AI hardware, so provincial backing could pull superhard-materials firms into a higher-value application beyond abrasives. The real test is whether the stated bottlenecks are actually broken and whether lab work reaches commercial deployment — the plan funds research and joint commercialization, but the timeline and uptake are the open question.