Tag archive: cooling

Earlier today, Honeywell announced a partnership with a cloud-technology company named Opower, a business that analyzes home energy patterns to provide specific recommendations on how to effectively save on energy costs. The collaboration between the two companies will integrate the cloud-sourced information from Opower with Honeywell's lineup of smart thermostats. The smart thermostats require a broadband Internet connection to provide… Read More

As chips become smaller and more powerful, the question of how to cool them becomes imperative. IBM has developed a system of stacking chips one on top of another, as opposed to the more usual side by side, and with it a system for cooling the chips with water, using tiny arteries. Considering the chips themselves are just four cm. square but put together in a sandwich as IBM has done, they put out a kilowatt of heat, effective cooling is… Read More

Researchers at Purdue University, working in collaboration with Intel, have developed a prototype device which uses an “ionic breeze” in conjunction with traditional fan-based cooling to dissipate heat from computer chips. And now, it's not something you'd buy from the Sharper Image. The premise is a little unusual: the “ionic engine” attached to a computer chip produces positively charged ions; these,… Read More

Japanese electronics giants Hitachi and NEC have announced the joint development of a liquid-based cooling system for hard drives in everyday desktop PCs. Although this isn't the first time liquid cooling systems have been applied to hard drives—Koolance has been offering liquid-based cooling systems for many PC components (including drives) for quite a while—NEC's and HItachi's motives seem a little different… Read More