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Cranking up the AC for computer chips

By Alpha Doggs on Wed, 07/16/08 - 6:10pm.
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Associated Press reports that Purdue University researchers are borrowing air conditioning techniques in an effort to cool off increasingly powerful computer chips. The story says that the experiments involve flushing a refrigerant through paths in the chips, and could be used in radar and military weapons systems down the road.

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