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."

Comments

Too Bad

[Kryptonian Jor-El]

Its too bad, we could have used this when the Pentium 4 Prescott came out...

That sound you hear

[SpiffyMarc]

is hundreds of champagne corks popping simultaneously at the AMD campus.

Re:This could help my girlfriend

[BadAnalogyGuy]

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.

Re:A=A if you ignore B

[BadAnalogyGuy]

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.