News Researchers Prototype cooling solution embedded into microchips

[mutantmagnet]

A New System for Cooling Down Computers Could Revolutionize the Pace of Innovation

A Swiss team has created tiny, fluid-filled channels in microchips to spirit away heat and save energy

www.smithsonianmag.com

This is pretty wild and something I have begun thinking about wanting in the last few years.

Who knows what they can embed into now but this could breathe new life into older chips at the minimum.

 

[DrMrLordX]

Older chips don't need cooling like that. Newer chips with power density problems (hotspots) need it. Besides, the technique requires cutting fluid channels into the silicon itself, which is not going to be possible on old dice.

 

[eek2121]

Older chips don't need cooling like that. Newer chips with power density problems (hotspots) need it. Besides, the technique requires cutting fluid channels into the silicon itself, which is not going to be possible on old dice.

Tech like this will be needed for stacking dies vertically.

 

[DrMrLordX]

Tech like this will be needed for stacking dies vertically.

That too. But it would even be useful for TSMC N7 today!