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Startup Offers Peltier-On-Chip

Posted by timothy on from the chill-man-it's-cool-it's-cool dept.

LowSNR writes "The South Carolina based startup Nextreme, Inc. is developing technology to put Peltier Coolers in chip packages, according to an Ars Technica report. The tiny coolers could be situated on top of local hotspots on the die and pump heat away through a package pin to the motherboard. Also, the Seebeck Effect allows the waste heat to be used to be harvested to generate/reclaim power."

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  1. Cool. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    That's cool.

    Har har.

  2. Yawn by skintigh2 · · Score: 2, Funny

    Call me when they put a miniature Sterling engine on a chip and use it to recharge the battery.

  3. Re:P4 - p4 != IPv4 - IPv6 by WillAffleckUW · · Score: 2, Funny

    Can I use the excess heat from my P4 to produce the energy for my p4?

    Only if you use IPv6 on the motherboard and IPv4 on the daughterboard.

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  4. Do you have Peltier on a chip? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    Someone let him out!

  5. Re:Well.. This, hot on the heels of ... by davidsyes · · Score: 1, Funny

    SuperSoaker.... Make a nukulerized mini-soaker/quantum heat sink and call it a physical feat. Snatch defeat from the jaws of victory... shunt the heat to another dimension...

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  6. Would those be... by AVIDJockey · · Score: 2, Funny

    ... Cool Ranch chips?