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Cool your chips |
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(NC&T/NU) Dr Brian Agnew of Newcastle University is leading a three-year government-funded project to develop a tiny refrigeration system for computers, involving industrial partners Honeywell Hymatic and Thermacore, and the Universities of Oxford and London South Bank.
Dr Agnew will draw on his experience of 30 years ago, when he worked for the MoD on a project to develop a shoe-box sized refrigeration unit that pumped liquid around the suits of jet fighter pilots to keep them cool in desert conditions.
He now intends to develop an evaporator - the electronic device that cools the liquid - small enough to fit on a chip and a miniature pump that is almost silent.
The Oxford University team plans to use its aerospace expertise in building cryogenic devices to cool instrumentation on board satellites.
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The first prototype of a miniature cooling system should be ready by the end of the project, said Dr Agnew, of the School of Mechanical and Systems Engineering at Newcastle University.
'Yes, it will add to the complexity of the computer but if you can get it to run more efficiently and much faster — up to 15-20 per cent improvement in clockspeed — I think it could be very important,' he said.
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