Cranking up the AC for computer chips

Opinion
Jul 16, 20081 min

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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