With ionic engine cooling, chips assure higher power
Ionic wind engines will soon find way into our future computers - a set-up that will dramatically improve upon the system's cooling.
Computers backed with high power require as much cooling. Those microchips within, are in for a cooler transformation - powering the computer cooling technology way beyond the conventional, researchers at Purdue University in Indiana have developed a concept that uses ionic wind to keep the microchips cool.
The ionic wind engine used for the chilling effect requires an electric current, which then generates a cooling breeze.
Why developed and how it works
With the high-powered systems in demand, the chips are packed tighter and closer within the computer, the chips get highly heated with excessive workload - which makes it that much difficult to cool with the fans, therefore this developed technology may just do the trick. The engine will not do the entire cooling job by itself but will improve upon the efficiency of the fans circulating those particles around - that until remained static.
As an electric current is applied to the ionic engine, it unlike the conventional fans produces positively charged particles (ions) that are dragged towards the negatively charged wire (cathode), and in the process, a constant air movement over the microchips is maintained.
The tests have revealed that the ionic engine improves about 250% over the current fans in the system. But the computing breakthrough is still far from reality, the researchers need to undersize their concept engine drastically before we consumers can see them in our computers - so wait on that could possible take another three years.
[Source: Scifi]
