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Micro-Pump is Cool Idea for Future Computer Chips

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the bad-pun-already-in-the-headline dept.

core plexus writes to tell us that Engineers at Purdue University have designed a tiny 'micro-pump' cooling device that can be used to circulate coolant through the channels etched on an individual chip. From the article: "The prototype chip contains numerous water-filled micro-channels, grooves about 100 microns wide, or about the width of a human hair. The channels are covered with a series of hundreds of electrodes, electronic devices that receive varying voltage pulses in such a way that a traveling electric field is created in each channel. The traveling field creates ions, or electrically charged atoms and molecules, which are dragged along by the moving field."

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  1. Whole new meaning to processor blocking by syousef · · Score: 4, Funny

    ...and what's the term for a blocked CPU? Constipated???

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    1. Re:Whole new meaning to processor blocking by ScrewMaster · · Score: 3, Funny

      No ... constiputed.

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  2. Re:Cooling is not the only problem by jlseagull · · Score: 3, Funny

    (mouth moving out of sync with the words, as in a chop-socky flick)

    "Your CMOS-fu is greater than mine! Please say more, so that I might sit and listen!"

    Can you point to some more links on 3D fabrication? Thanks!

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  3. So very appropriate by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Funny

    Not only is this literally "cool," but many geeks are used to operating a micro-pump..........

    [crickets...]

  4. Micro is so 1960's by beoswulf · · Score: 2, Funny

    I expect and demand every cool discovery to be prefixed with "nano"

    1. Re:Micro is so 1960's by Bloke+down+the+pub · · Score: 2, Funny
      I expect and demand every cool discovery to be prefixed with "nano"
      LOL, are you still wearing flares or something, d00d? Get with the program, it's all about nantwo-dot-o now.
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  5. Need for new kernel error by nitrocloud · · Score: 1, Funny

    Now if our CPUs could drown, somewhere near the "printer on fire" error, there needs to be a "CPU is downing" error, right?

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