Researchers at IBM’s\u00a0Zurich Research Laboratory\u00a0have developed a new technique that gives a whole new meaning to water cooling: Circulating water inside the chip itself. The concept is not meant for today’s CPUs, but actually for the chips of tomorrow.\u00a0Historically, CPU performance improvements have largely been a function of generating faster computational speeds. But higher speeds require smaller manufacturing processes and generate more heat–thus trying to eke out more MHz from CPU design advances becomes<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Researchers at IBM’s\u00a0Zurich Research Laboratory\u00a0have developed a new technique that gives a whole new meaning to water cooling: Circulating water inside the chip itself. The concept is not meant for today’s CPUs, but actually for the chips of tomorrow.\u00a0Historically, CPU performance improvements have largely been a function of generating faster computational speeds. But higher speeds require smaller manufacturing processes and generate more heat–thus trying to eke out more MHz from CPU design advances becomes Continue reading