LN2 is for Girls

[FTLN]

LN2 is for Girls

Bring on Laser cooling....

Nice intresting read here -

http://www.gizmag.com/laser-cooling-semiconductor/26222/

Here -

http://www.gizmag.com/laser-refrigerator/21645/

and here -

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laser_cooling

As computer chips, or CPUs, become more powerful, they also generate higher amounts of heat, too. Some pundits argue that if new cooling techniques are not found, thus creating a new, lower temperature working environment, then the regular increases in CPU speeds we have become accustomed to will continue to slow.

The breakthrough in laser cooling (aka optical refrigeration) technology could lead to compact, cost effective, vibration-free and cryogen-less cooling systems in many different applications. CPUs could reduce their reliance on external cooling systems like fans and incorporate built-in laser controlled systems instead. The potential for minimized heat and prolonged battery life in items such as tablets and smartphones is another example ....

 

[maniac]

i find this quite exiting. it will totally revolutionise the future of pc cooling

 

[Josh Weston]

They have shown us macroscopic mechanical Schrodinger's cats, and have produced light by shaking a mirror, thereby promoting photons from the quantum vacuum.

It's that quote from the second link of yours that made me realise how out of my depth I am with this stuff. Damn.

Still, these are really interesting developments. Let's hope to see it in the home in the next 20 years

 

[vorticalbox]

same rules apply, instead of transferring heat from the heat sink to the air, with help of fans, you transfer the heat with light but even still that heat has to go "somewhere".

awesome advancements but don't think i'll see it any house house in my life time.

 

[FTLN]

It's probably a long way off for us lot, but the tech is already being used in nasa and google's D-Wave Quantum computer which uses a 128-Qubit cpu.....

I wonder how much ram its got