Re:New superconductor microprocessor yields a substantial bo...
by whatshisface on Wednesday January 13, 2021 @01:52PM
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Heat conduction also scales with thermal conductivity, which is another thing that advances in solid state can bring us.
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Re:New superconductor microprocessor yields a substantial bo...
by jessriedel on Wednesday January 13, 2021 @02:36PM
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This doesn't change the fact that, for any degree of heat conductivity achieved smaller packages will be hard to keep cold than large ones.
Re:New superconductor microprocessor yields a substantial bo...
by whatshisface on Wednesday January 13, 2021 @03:15PM
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It also doesn't change the fact that smaller devices are harder to put wires on - but they're both polynomial scaling factors that other polynomial scaling paradigms could cancel out.
Re:New superconductor microprocessor yields a substantial bo...
by jessriedel on Wednesday January 13, 2021 @04:30PM
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The topic of discussion is datacenter vs. an extremely small cryocooler. What is the other polynomial scaling paradigm that would cancel out the datacenter's advantage?
Re:New superconductor microprocessor yields a substantial bo...
by whatshisface on Wednesday January 13, 2021 @08:46PM
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The effectiveness of thermal insulators and heat pumps. If they make the cost difference negligible then other costs will dominate. We're talking about future decades of material science advancements here, a lot is possible.