Startup Offers Peltier-On-Chip

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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Someone tag this "perpetualmotion"

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As cool as it is to use the peltier effect to cool chips, in no way is the "reclaimed heat" going to be enough to generate any significant amount of power.

I don't mind companies spouting marketing drivel, because that's what companies with marketing departments do. But this whole "fake green" thing that's going on recently has got to stop.