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Fujitsu has come up with a new innovative technology to transfer excess heat from CPUs, GPUs...
They claim that the new technology can transfer 5x more heat than the existing heat pipes.
That's the internal of the pipe. The technology looks promising and can really help the electronic industry
where ever rising temperature in devices is a growing concern. See a detailed report here.
Does it solve the temperature problem in next-generation high-performance devices like smart phones, tablets etc.?
Pawan, heat pipe technology is at least forty years old. It was used to transfer heat away from the supports on the Alaska oil pipeline so it wouldn't melt the permafrost that supported the racks that supported the pipeline off the ground. They are currently in use in numerous areas and applications, both large and small.
Thanks Arthur for the info! Good to know. So, technology helps in different forms at different times, never vanishes. Today, it helps saving electronics from melting
Pawan, I since did a Google search and it has been used in electronics for quite a while. It's interesting how credit is claimed. I've seen it in the past when I worked on electronics and I don't want to give away my age, but I think I saw a few dinosaurs, not quite, but I'm sixty. This is one of my specialties, is to look at how technologies migrate and claims of new discoveries. Cross over technology/knowledge uses and transfers present many interesting investment opportunities overlooked by many. Currently I'm an researcher/investor for a living and this is one of the areas I'm on the constant look at for. Many mems are just very small versions of what has been made in the past. This is what Silicon Valley has been about since its founding, leveraging technology and standing on the shoulders of great men/women.
Arthur, I agree with you. Present and future stands on the shoulders of the past. Most of the time technology is refined and improved for better. It's seldom a completely new technology. Sometimes it may appear so until you know about its past! But as long as it improves, it's better, we can call it 'imovation' (imitated innovation) rather than innovation.
