Cooling Down Hot Processors

DonnaMai writes "Face it: the only scorching hot thing you want with a chip is salsa. Any other overheating is potentially counterproductive, and can be downright damaging to the microprocessor -- or other components. This article uncovers potential ways to chill the chips."

Comments

And why was this article accepted?!

[William_Lee]

There was nothing new or innovative in the article, and it had the depth of Paris Hilton as far as actual real world cooling suggestions.

There are a ton of different solutions out there both onchip and off including aircooling via different heatsink designs, watercooling, peltier cooling, and self contained refrigeration units.

This article barely scraped the surface of anything useful or interesting related to cooling.

Oh wait, this is /. I forgot for a moment...

What a disappointment

[Noose For A Neck]

Here I was, all set to read an interesting article about technical solutions to the problem of heat transfer on microelectronic chips, and instead all I get is a bunch of fluffy gibberish that looks like it was written by a sophomore communications major in college.

Color this mechanical engineer disappointed.