New 3D CPU Water Cooling Method

captain igor writes "According to this story on Wired News, a new company launched by researchers from Stanford has come up with a way to layer a silicon network of tiny tubes on top of a microprocessor. The system then uses a solid-state motor (no moving parts!) to pipe cold water through the silicon network. According to the article, this system can handle 1000 watts (yes, a kilowatt) per square centimeter."

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I concur

[goombah99]

Yep you're answer is better than my initial post. I agree with your math. (4.8Joules/gm-C)

my post erred because the reason the water boils is not the heat flux but the stored heat in the stove top coil. The transient delivery of this stored heat vastly exceeds the rate of power delivered to the stove and thus the water boils fast. but this would not be sustained.

I withdraw my original answer.

Re:It's not a motor

[CaseyB]

No one ever, ever refers to such a thing with no moving parts as a motor, until today Probably because such devices are rare.

but it's apparently correct because of some loose dictionary.com definiton.

No, it's correct because that's the definition of the word. Just because you've created some narrower meaning in your mind doesn't make it so. I imagine that many people considered "vehicle" to mean "something that conveys cargo on land or on water" before airplanes were invented.

If it has no rotor, I dare say it isn't a motor.

That's funny. You must be terribly confused by the way all those space vehicles get into orbit without motors!