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On-CPU Peltiers From AMD?

Posted by timothy on from the speculatoryism dept.

Hack Jandy writes "Remember those people who lived on the edge and put peltiers between their CPU and heatsink (or your favorite beverage)? A peltier is a devices that gets cold on one side and warm on the other when an electrical current passes through it. It looks like there is talk that AMD will actually incorporate some of these devices on the CPU according to Xbitlabs. AMD already incorporates some degree of the peltier effect with it's Silicon on Insulator."

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  1. wait till... by DirtySnachez · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    How long will it be till coke starts thier new advertising campaign..What 'flavor' cpu do you run???

  2. FREE LEONARD PELTIER! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Leonard Peltier, a citizen of the Anishinabe and Lakota Nations, is a father, a grandfather, an artist, a writer, and an Indigenous rights activist. He has spent more than twenty-seven years in prison for a crime he did not commit. Amnesty International considers him a "political prisoner" who should be "immediately and unconditionally released."

  3. Stop confusing it's and its by forged · · Score: 1, Offtopic
    It's is the contracted form of it is. So let try it in the current context:

    • ...with it is Silicon on Insulator.

    Does not look so good, does it ? Let's try the other form:

    • ...with its Silicon on Insulator.

    Right here... much better :)
    This simple trick brought to you by someone fed up to see such gross mistakes allowed to make it to frontpages.

  4. Re:Grammar is never off-topic by dont_think_twice · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    its/it's breaks a fundamental rule of grammar: always use an apostrophy to show posession.

    Sometimes exceptions have meanings, but this one is to stupid for me to bother trying to remember. If you (grammar nazis) want me to follow your rules, at least makes the rules logical. Otherwise, I will just ignore them.

  5. Re:old technology by pjt33 · · Score: 0, Offtopic
    Peltier's prior art dates back to 1834, so I see three possible scenarios:
    1. your girlfriend's patent is invalid;
    2. you can outdo any of the rest of us when it comes to "When I was young" stories; or
    3. you really are desperate to have a girlfriend.
  6. Re:Grammar is never off-topic by dont_think_twice · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    You meant "too stupid"

    Wow, there is a beautiful sense of irony in making a mistake like that.