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NASA Building Massively Heat-Resistant Chips
coondoggie writes "NASA researchers have designed and built a new circuit chip that can take the heat of a blast furnace and keep on performing. Silicon carbide (SiC) chips can operate at 600 degrees Celsius or 1,112 degrees Fahrenheit where conventional silicon-based electronics — limited to about 350 C — would fail. The new silicon carbide differential amplifier integrated circuit chip may provide benefits to anything requiring long-lasting electronic circuits in very hot environments such as jets, spacecraft, and industrial machinery. In particular, NASA said SiC applications will include energy storage, renewable energy, nuclear power, and electrical drives."
This gives an update for my macbook pro.
Its too bad, we could have used this when the Pentium 4 Prescott came out...
All your 09 F9 11 02 9D 74 E3 5B D8 41 56 C5 63 56 88 C0 are belong to us
is hundreds of champagne corks popping simultaneously at the AMD campus.
A bunch of geeks eventually running hardware at thousands of degrees in their cluttered, and probably somehow very flammable, rooms.
I can't tell you how many times I have accidentally left my computer in the blast furnace. It is so annoying when it won't work after that!
This could help my girlfriend
Every time she tries to use a laptop, it melts because... she is so hot.
Maybe you should take her in for repairs. If the battery is from Sony, you may risk serious fire damage.
600 degrees Celsius or 1,112 degrees Fahrenheit
I love those "pull-significant-digits-out-of-my-ass" unit conversions.
How can I believe you when you tell me what I don't want to hear?
Ah, the moderation conundrum:
Should this be +1 Funny for using the words "my girlfriend" in Slashdot, or does the lameness of the other joke cancel it out?
Freedom is the freedom to say 2+2=4, everything else follows...
Terrorists can't threaten a country's freedom and democracy. Only lawmakers and voters can do that.
Venus darling, Please don't get alarmed, but those wretched Earthlings have made a super-dooper hot-stuff control whatsit. You'd better watch out because from what I hear that super-hot atmospheric condom of your's isn't going to protect you from frequent and repeated penetration much longer. Sorry to be such a harbinger, but I just thought you ought to know. Haved a chat to Mars, he knows all about what they get up to.
Now the chips which will execute the
distanceInFeet = distanceInFeet + deltaInMeters;
calculation are heat resistant.
(Hey, only kidding guys. I mean, we all make mistakes. Of course, I don't expect you to be rocket scie... oh, wait. Well, its not like you had ten billion dollars of... oh, wait. Well, the point of it is, you can still make mistakes.)
Help poke pirates in the eyepatch, arr.
I know it is lonely being a geek, but your soldering iron is not a substitute for human companionship.
So, when are we getting these in workstations? Although, my current laptop tends to get pretty hot, I don't think I would want 1600 degrees on my nuts
Heat-resistant nuts are their next project.
Table-ized A.I.
Intel re-released the Pentium-D line, using this technology.
Oh, you're not stuck, you're just unable to let go of the onion rings.
you could also just go back and build a Pentium out of vac.tubes
I gotta tell you. I just did this. What a difference! It has this quality that's hard to describe. A kind of warmth that I just don't get from silicon transistors.
Now hardware capable of running it is finally available, Duke Nukem Forever should be released any day now!
pretty cool, getting moded flamebait in a thread about an IC chip that'll run in a blast furness!
Apocalypse Cancelled, Sorry, No Ticket Refunds
Remember the 'McGuffin' in Zardoz?
It was a diamond based processor.
In fact it was a diamond based, optical processor...
Hmm... Things that make you go hmm...
Oh, for people who don't know, 'McGuffin' was Alfred Hitchcock's name for a central plot device around which everything in the story rotated.
And for people who don't know who Alfred Hitchcock was, he was a famous movie director.
Its not easy getting old. There's all this common 'shared reference' shit to worry about losing.
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