Asetek announced today that it has raised an additional $8 million dollars in venture capital and appointed industry veteran Sam Szteinbaum as Chairman of the Board. The completion of this fund raising round caps a string of successes for Asetek in 2009. In June, Asetek partnered with Corsair to launch the Corsair branded, Asetek manufactured Hydro H50 CPU Cooler, bringing Asetek cooling technology back into the enthusiast market.

In August, HP introduced Asetek supplied liquid cooling options to further enhance the quiet computing capability HP’s new Z400 and Z800 workstations. And, in September, Dell introduced its new 100% liquid cooled line up of extreme performance Alienware Aurora and Area-51 desktop gaming machines.