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the future is 3d

How you are going to fit a cooling fan on this is out of my league.... Efficient heat dissipation is going to be a very hard problem to overcome, IMO.
 
Was it Intel or IBM who was working in micro watercooling, to cool using nano tunnels for water in order to stack processors?
 
You would be looking at much lower heat levels in the future though, 11nm chips will put out a lot less heat than current chips.
 
Energize said:
You would be looking at much lower heat levels in the future though, 11nm chips will put out a lot less heat than current chips.
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But I'm thinking a 3D chip, the "centre" part is going to be always hot, like Earth's molten core lol.

What is this "micro cooling"??? Is that like running tubes in the middle of the layers?
 
yep thats it.

I remember reading about this as well a while back on the forum. Believe it was Intel who used tiny tubes within the processor to liquid cool from within. Not sure what exactly happened to it or if its still be researched
 
Neat idea, I suppose the other aspect is in the design of the different areas. Areas which are seldom used or only need to run at slower clocks/power could be in the centre of the 'cube' whilst the higher power/clock aspects can be out near the edges to allow for better cooling of those areas.
 
PaulyD said:
yep thats it.

I remember reading about this as well a while back on the forum. Believe it was Intel who used tiny tubes within the processor to liquid cool from within. Not sure what exactly happened to it or if its still be researched
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Everytime I think about this I think that water molecules must be too big to actually 'flow' around an architecture like that.

I'm most likely wrong, but that what I think :D

V.
 
I guess one solution would be to have vertical "towers" of some heat conductive material that would draw heat away from the central sections/core to the upper and lower surface, where they would make contact with suitable cooling then.

Nano heat pipes anyone? :D
 
Nano heat pipes lol awesome that's going to replace my Arctic Freezer next year =p

I just wonder.... if air/water molecules are small enough to fit through those tubes.
 
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