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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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