Cool Ideas for Overheated Chips
Source: Wired
How do you cool a 200-watt light bulb the size of a postage stamp?
This is the essential problem that computer chip makers the world over now wrestle with as Moore's law runs headlong into the laws of thermodynamics.
Many chips today already burn through more than a hundred watts of power -- cooled by heat sinks and exhaust fans, but only just barely.
Present cooling technology, in short, cannot sustain future hardware. And as the old fan-and-sink goes the way of MS-DOS, new cooling ideas and inventions will be needed to keep tomorrow's chips from frying to a crisp.
