Four new ways to chill chips [News]
Prachi R. Patel · IEEE Spectrum · 2015
Things are getting a bit too hot in the microprocessor world. Again. Moore's Law has always come with the caveat that more transistors, switched at a higher frequency, means more heat. Over the years, chipmakers have used tricks like throttling back clock speeds and putting multiple microprocessor cores on a chip to spread out the heat.