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New Chip-cooling Technology

Posted by samzenpus on from the cool-off dept.

BillOfThePecosKind writes "Researchers have demonstrated a new technology using tiny "ionic wind engines" that might dramatically improve computer chip cooling, possibly addressing a looming threat to future advances in computers and electronics. Purdue researchers funded by Intel have improved the "heat-transfer coefficient" by some 250%. I never liked water cooled systems, and this sounds promising. However I wonder how much ozone one of these things produces."

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  1. Ozone production FTW by SamP2 · · Score: 4, Funny

    "I wonder how much ozone one of these things produces."

    Produces? Hey, let's make a ton of these and solve the ozone hole problem forever!

    1. Re:Ozone production FTW by eggnoglatte · · Score: 4, Funny

      What the heck is "o-zone"? Ozone is a molecule, not some kind of atmospheric zone; that would be the ozone layer, i.e. the atmospheric layer with a high natural concentration of ... wait for it ... ozone.

    2. Re:Ozone production FTW by FST777 · · Score: 4, Funny

      everyone start digging
      You must be new here...
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  2. If I don't, someone else will.... by ZeroFactorial · · Score: 5, Funny

    Cool!