August 16th, 2007 by ketyung
It seems to be a new kind of cooling method for your computers, going to hit the industry instead of the water cooling method that we’ve seen before. The new cooling method is ionic cooling, which was developed by researchers over at Purdue University. And it’s claimed to be 250% more effective. The method consists of a “wind engine”, which needs high voltage for generating positively charged ions and then these ions are spread by wind toward a negatively charged wire. If this “wind engine” is attached at one end of a computer chip and the wire is at the other end, the ions will effectively sluice across the chip and keep airflow clean and constant.
The research seems to have proven the effectiveness of this cooling process. But they are still having lots of work ahead, which is to miniaturize the “wind engine” in order to be attachable to a computer chip. It’s still at a very early stage to talk about when this new way of cooling will hit the industry. Which most likely will take them at least another three years.
via [Sci-Fi TeCh]
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August 17th, 2007 at 12:45 pm
purdue university reseachers has done a good job indeed………
this invention will one step ahead to supercomputing research & quantum computing…thanks for nice blog….
August 17th, 2007 at 6:31 pm
ummmm…. it still takes them perhaps another 3 yrs for this product 2hit the market…..;D
August 24th, 2007 at 7:41 am
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