News - New magnetic cooling technology to boost chip performance

[HEXUS]

Datacentres could save £$£$s thanks to this efficient new technique.

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[zaph0d]

Wonder if Intel will use that to replace the thermal interface between chip % lid a couple cpu's down the line

[Macadee]

Looks a bit big.

[devBunny]

This project has a long road ahead of it. The cooling material might take heat out of the chip but there's still the question of getting the heat from there out of the system.

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

[mikeybinns]

i hope they can make this a bit smaller then it could be a top seller