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<p lang="en-GB"><span lang="en-GB">"If chips get too hot they
malfunction, so this is already a major obstacle for further
miniaturizing electronics, and it’s also an unsustainable resource drain
on big technology companies with lots of hardware. Data centers in the
US consume 24 terawatt-hours of electricity and 100 billion liters of
water a year, which is equivalent to the residential requirements of the
city of Philadelphia.</span></p>
<p lang="en-GB"><span lang="en-GB">A new approach that builds
microfluidic cooling channels into chips could provide dramatically
better cooling using far less water. The design, reported in a</span> <a href="https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-020-2666-1"><span lang="en-GB">paper in </span><em><span lang="en-GB">Nature</span></em></a><span lang="en-GB"><em>,</em> is capable of 50 times the performance of state-of-the-art alternative cooling systems, according to the authors.</span></p>
<p lang="en-GB"><span lang="en-GB">“This cooling technology will enable
us to make electronic devices even more compact and could considerably
reduce energy consumption around the world,” study leader Elison Matioli
from École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne in Switzerland </span><a href="https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2020-09/epfd-tcf090220.php"><span lang="en-GB">said in a press release</span></a><span lang="en-GB">."</span></p>
</div><div><a href="https://singularityhub.com/2020/09/14/this-microchip-has-its-own-built-in-cooling-system/">https://singularityhub.com/2020/09/14/this-microchip-has-its-own-built-in-cooling-system/</a></div></div>