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Intel Develops Micro-Refrigerator To Cool Chips
Spacedonkey writes "Researchers at Intel, RTI International of North Carolina, and Arizona State University have made ultra-thin 'micro-refrigerators' for computer chips. The device uses a thermoelectric cooler made from nanostructured thin-film superlattice that can reduce the temperature by 55C when a current passes through it. In testing, it reduced the temperature on part of a chip by 15C without impairing its performance. The researchers say the component could be particularly useful for cooling hot spots that frequently occur on multi-core chips."
...micro-keggers for tiny little beers and a nano-couch backplane.
Finally an architecture without that lamo fsb that Intel can be proud of.
Does it reach -232 degrees Celsius?????
Agent K: A *person* is smart. People are dumb, stupid, panicky animals, and you know it.
I retract my previous statement... I thought this was a different tech I read about somewhere.
This is a cooler, it's a thin cooler they are placing between the chip and it's housing.
So it's a peltier cooler after all.
Sometimes the best solution is to stop wasting time looking for an easy solution.
Shut the fuck up, that has nothing to do with anything anyone said. I read your whole post to the end, wtf are you babbling about that's anywhere near relevant?
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