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Thursday, June 21, 2012
New Cooling Technology
When building new faster computers these days, there are two main problems: getting enough power in to the CPU and getting enough heat out. The folks at Sandia Labs have a solution to the latter problem. They have build a spinning heatsink that, rather than connecting directly to the CPU as most heatsinks do today, spins just a thousandth of an inch above the CPU. This creates something called an air bearing that is almost as efficient for transmitting heat as a direct connection. This system can suck heat out of a CPU 30 times more efficiently than a standard heatsink. Now that is a cool invention (see what I did there?).
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