HP Marries Inkjet and Robotic Technology to Cool Chips

Posted by chrisd on Thursday August 8, 2002 @07:44AM from the did-none-of-these-engineers-see-terminator dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Extremetech has an article about how H P has decided to use the spraying tech developed for inkjet printers to cool chips -- and has made a robot that'll wander around data centers, detecting too-hot chips and hosing them down." The article notes that the robot needed about 1 hour of training on the room before it would go about the business of chip cooling. The real advance would be if it achieved sentience and went crazy and became a graffiti taggin' super robot, but I digress.

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Oh goody! by Anonymous Coward · 2002-08-08 07:50 · Score: 0, Offtopic

Imagine a Beowulf cluster of tho....

No, seriously! You'd actually be able to cool one of the new AMD chips coming out man!
Test by MaxVincent · 2002-08-08 07:53 · Score: 0, Offtopic

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Re:Mod him up! Mod him up! by zapfie · 2002-08-08 08:10 · Score: 0, Offtopic

any little thing the guy posted would instantly get modded up to +5 by starstruck moderators.

That so..

Please. He got modded up because a lot of us found it funny.

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