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Originally posted by futRtrubL
In data switching All power is turned into heat.
Well, maybe they increased the pfysical size of the core so that passive cooling without a hsf can keep it at rt. I think this unlikely though, the 16MHz chip in my Palm grows warm with use with the back off.
Edward
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They showed pics of the chip in links at the bottom of that article. The core of it did look larger. Less circuitry also should mean less stuff to heat up.
It DID say room temp. This is supposed to be a server CPU though and the tech probably will not trickle down to desktops for a long time. But it does show that it is possibe and can and will happen non the less.
Here is the pic: