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Re:New superconductor microprocessor yields a substantial bo... by extropy on Wednesday January 13, 2021 @04:54PM (#25768450)
What's wrong with attaching said microchip to a piece of copper for increased size? Genuinely curious.

To be useful in a data center you could cool a slab of copper the size of a fridge and surface mount thousands of chips on it.

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Re:New superconductor microprocessor yields a substantial bo... by jessriedel on Wednesday January 13, 2021 @05:35PM (#25768924)
The topic is cooling small objects so that personal electronics (e.g., your phone) can compete with datacenters. Cold at scale (i.e., in datacenters) is comparatively easy.
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