Suresh Garimella, who led the research and is a bit of a chip-cooling guru, has a word of caution: the team doesn’t know how efficiently the voltage produces electrons. Unused voltage will be converted to heat, which is a bit of a problem in a cooling system.
However, the team has managed to use the system to cool metal, and is confident it could be built into a chip.
We're not yet so desperate that we need to downgrade speed.
The real advantages of the Transmeta chips are the lower power consumption, as you mentioned. But I was talking more about heat.
Originally posted by antime@Apr 4, 2004 @ 08:20 PM
Personally, I'm at the stage where I'd be quite happy to trade performance for a cool, quiet machine. I've spent way too much to get the noise level of my machine down to an acceptable level and I'll still be unable to use it during the summer.