Solid State Cooling
Solid state drives are slowly becoming a part of the IT landscape that won't make anyone go "Wow!", but solid state cooling is a very interesting and new concept, and since it looks to be a much better option for the future than MSI's powerless cooler, I am sure you'll also find this topic something worth checking out, as I do...
First, there was simply a processor inserted in its slot. Then, as speed increased, a heatsink was added. Later, this heatsink got a fan on top to help keeping the temperatures low. As speed and heat produced by processors kept going up, heatsinks with heat pipes were introduced, while using new materials to manufacture the heatsinks, such as copper. Now, we finally got a solit state fan!
Dan Schlitz and Vishal Singhal, engineers at Thorrn Micro Technologies Inc., have developed a cooling sistem that works similarly to domestic air purifiers. As far as we know, this fan is more efficient than air fans 35 times its size, operating thanks to the corona wind phenomenon.
This invention, tagged as "One of the most significant advancements in electronics cooling since heat pipes. It could change the cooling paradigm for mobile electronics.", is able "to cool a 25-watt chip with a device smaller than 1 cubic-cm and can someday be integrated into silicon to make self-cooling chips," but I am sure we'll have to wait at least a few years until the solid state cooler becomes available for everyone's use...
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