NASA Building Massively Heat-Resistant Chips 172
coondoggie writes "NASA researchers have designed and built a new circuit chip that can take the heat of a blast furnace and keep on performing. Silicon carbide (SiC) chips can operate at 600 degrees Celsius or 1,112 degrees Fahrenheit where conventional silicon-based electronics — limited to about 350 C — would fail. The new silicon carbide differential amplifier integrated circuit chip may provide benefits to anything requiring long-lasting electronic circuits in very hot environments such as jets, spacecraft, and industrial machinery. In particular, NASA said SiC applications will include energy storage, renewable energy, nuclear power, and electrical drives."
Great idea (Score:4, Funny)
Too Bad (Score:5, Funny)
That sound you hear (Score:5, Funny)
Not what we need (Score:1, Funny)
It is about damn time (Score:1, Funny)
Re:This could help my girlfriend (Score:5, Funny)
Every time she tries to use a laptop, it melts because... she is so hot.
Maybe you should take her in for repairs. If the battery is from Sony, you may risk serious fire damage.
Sorry, OT... (Score:4, Funny)
I love those "pull-significant-digits-out-of-my-ass" unit conversions.
Re:This could help my girlfriend (Score:5, Funny)
Should this be +1 Funny for using the words "my girlfriend" in Slashdot, or does the lameness of the other joke cancel it out?
Re:CPUs.. (Score:5, Funny)
Venus: Here we come! (Score:3, Funny)
Hey, NASA's capabilities are increasing by leaps (Score:5, Funny)
distanceInFeet = distanceInFeet + deltaInMeters;
calculation are heat resistant.
(Hey, only kidding guys. I mean, we all make mistakes. Of course, I don't expect you to be rocket scie... oh, wait. Well, its not like you had ten billion dollars of... oh, wait. Well, the point of it is, you can still make mistakes.)
Re:Great idea (Score:4, Funny)
Re:This could help my girlfriend (Score:1, Funny)
I know it is lonely being a geek, but your soldering iron is not a substitute for human companionship.
Re:Love the name... (Score:3, Funny)
Heat-resistant nuts are their next project.
In related news.... (Score:3, Funny)
Intel re-released the Pentium-D line, using this technology.
Re:A=A if you ignore B (Score:5, Funny)
I gotta tell you. I just did this. What a difference! It has this quality that's hard to describe. A kind of warmth that I just don't get from silicon transistors.
Awesome News! (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Too Bad (Score:2, Funny)
Re:CPUs.. (Score:4, Funny)
Zardoz! (Score:4, Funny)
It was a diamond based processor.
In fact it was a diamond based, optical processor...
Hmm... Things that make you go hmm...
Oh, for people who don't know, 'McGuffin' was Alfred Hitchcock's name for a central plot device around which everything in the story rotated.
And for people who don't know who Alfred Hitchcock was, he was a famous movie director.
Its not easy getting old. There's all this common 'shared reference' shit to worry about losing.
Re:Great idea (Score:2, Funny)