Intel Develops Micro-Refrigerator To Cool Chips

Spacedonkey writes "Researchers at Intel, RTI International of North Carolina, and Arizona State University have made ultra-thin 'micro-refrigerators' for computer chips. The device uses a thermoelectric cooler made from nanostructured thin-film superlattice that can reduce the temperature by 55C when a current passes through it. In testing, it reduced the temperature on part of a chip by 15C without impairing its performance. The researchers say the component could be particularly useful for cooling hot spots that frequently occur on multi-core chips."

Intel is also planning...

[Anonymous Coward]

...micro-keggers for tiny little beers and a nano-couch backplane.

Finally an architecture without that lamo fsb that Intel can be proud of.

Yes but ....

[Archangel Michael]

Does it reach -232 degrees Celsius?????

Re:Peltier Effect

[jhfry]

I retract my previous statement... I thought this was a different tech I read about somewhere.

This is a cooler, it's a thin cooler they are placing between the chip and it's housing.

So it's a peltier cooler after all.

Re:Pelletier effect?

[bluefoxlucid]

Shut the fuck up, that has nothing to do with anything anyone said. I read your whole post to the end, wtf are you babbling about that's anywhere near relevant?