AI chips are getting hotter. A microfluidics breakthrough goes straight to the silicon to cool up to three times better.

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• AwesomeLowlander@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  AI bullshit aside, this seems like a pretty cool development, if it’s as effective as they say it is. Wonder how easy it will be to produce it en masse, though.

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  • billwashere@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    So they’ve basically turned the entire CPU/GPU into a water block? Yeah this is kinda neat.

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• db2@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  idgaf about the ai hype bullshit, does this have applications for real processors?

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  • brendansimms@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    microfluidic cooling has also been a hot topic in power electronics for some years now. Higher power density materials (GaN, SiC…) allow for miniaturization of the devices, but then the bigass heatsinks offset the improvement, so microfluidics are developing quickly. Good read (may not have access, but just ask sci hub…): www.nature.com/articles/s41586-020-2666-1

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  • AwesomeLowlander@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Apparently yes.

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• altphoto@lemmy.today ⁨23⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  A family passes a broken down Buick… Dad! Is that another one?
  Yup! Microfluidics engines never accounted for real life rust and debris!

  Were the engineers stupid?
  No, son, management, always management.

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• SnoringEarthworm@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Those are definitely words.

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  • TingoTenga@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Geordie La Forge would be proud.

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