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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. Re:High Altitude Airships FTW by sanman2 · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Actually, I'd read that ion-wind technology could be used as a propulsion mechanism for large high-altitude airships. Hey, then you could produce ozone while meeting people's transportation needs at the same time.

    Maybe a suped-up version of one of those Aeroscraft thingies could feature this.