Superconducting Microprocessors? Turns Out They're Ultra-Efficient (2021)

Re:Superconducting Microprocessors? Turns Out They're Ultra-... by lacoolj on Wednesday July 31, 2024 @12:49PM (#41120852)

This will be incredible when the cooling at consumer-level has been figured out. I do wonder what kind of material requirements/availability there will be though. Even things like touchscreens and other rare earth metals are either getting scarce or controlled by one or two countries.

Regardless, exciting news here for all of us

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Re:Superconducting Microprocessors? Turns Out They're Ultra-... by marcosdumay on Wednesday July 31, 2024 @02:47PM (#41122123)

Lots of people handle liquid nitrogen in all kinds of different field applications. Cooling things is not that hard.

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Re:Superconducting Microprocessors? Turns Out They're Ultra-... by jonjenk on Wednesday July 31, 2024 @11:35PM (#41125908)

Right. But this requires cooling to liquid helium temperatures. That's a separate level of hard and cost compared to liquid nitrogen.

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