The category·AI panel Core AI Index·observed week 2026-W24

Heat Sinks

buyer-search match · not yet measured

No buyer-search keyword sample has been scored against AI’s description of this category yet.

These are the brands AI most associates with this electronics category.

5 brands competing·top brand: thermaledge.com·slug: heat-sinks

The ranking

ranked by share of AI mention

Share is each brand’s portion of AI’s total mentions for this category. Mention counts are cumulative across the consensus panel and tracking weeks. Not normalized for panel turnover or model outages — cross-category comparisons require the evidence layer.

#BrandShareMentions
1.thermaledge.com27.35%32
2.tetech.com25.64%30
3.iewc.com18.80%22
4.deltaww.com14.53%17
5.mersen.com13.68%16
What the evidence layer adds

Threshold rule, panel breadth, observed week, and the per-brand statistics behind each row — plus the reality checks (vantage alignment, supply geography, buyer vocabulary) that tell you whether AI’s rank for Heat Sinks holds up off-screen.

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Five vantages on this category

who describes it the same · who describes it differently·teaser · subscribe for full reveal

How AI talks about Heat Sinks, compared to how OEMs describe it on their own product pages, how buyers search for it, how distributors bucket it, and how aggregators classify it in their taxonomies. Each of those five viewpoints is a vantage. The cosine between each pair of vantages tells you whose vocabulary tracks whose — 1.0 means identical wording, near 0 means they don’t share a vocabulary at all.

Biggest divergence

AI consensus and OEM self-description use the most-different vocabulary for this category — cosine 0.93.

AI consensus
  • heat shrink tubingw 13%
  • heat sinksw 10%
  • heatsinksw 3%
  • bonded fin heat sinksw 2%
  • led heat sinksw 2%
n = 1,468 obs
OEM self-description

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How manufacturers describe this category on their own product pages.

Buyer search
  • heat sinksw 30% · vol 36,200
  • aluminum heat sinkw 4% · vol 5,400
  • aluminum heatsinksw 4% · vol 5,400
  • alu heatsinkw 4% · vol 5,400
  • best cpu heatsinkw 4% · vol 4,400
n = 676 obs
Distributor bucket

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How electronic distributors bucket this category in their product hierarchies.

Aggregator taxonomy

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How parts aggregators (Octopart, FindChips) classify this category in their taxonomies.

w = weight within this vantage’s vocabulary · n = source observations contributing to this vantage · vol = monthly buyer-search volume (DataForSEO, where applicable)

Vocabulary distance matrix · cosine 0–1 (higher = more aligned)

Lower triangle only — matrix is symmetric. Diagonal omitted (self-cosine = 1.0).

AIOEMBuyDistAgg
AI····
OEM···
Buy0.95··
Dist·
Agg
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How the ranking is made

Brands appear on this board when at least 2 of 4 Core vendors mention them in this category across at least 8 weeks at average saliency 60 / 100. Rank is by share of total mention volume within the category.

Evidence base

Substrate: cr_per_kim_slug_competing_set_core_ai_index_aliasmap_v3_layer2 · week 2026-W24 · 5 brands in this category. Identity normalized via verified successor map + alias-collapse v2. Figures reproducible from methodology.

What this is not

This is the public category rank. It is not an SEO product or an optimization service. It renders what AI says. Per-brand vantage alignment, supply geography, and keyword arbitrage open with a subscription.