Micro-pump my CPU

Engineers at Purdue University have developed a tiny “micro-pump” cooling device small enough to fit on a computer chip that circulates coolant through channels etched into the chip.

Since silicon as it’s limit, engineers have been looking for ways to bypass this problem. Quantum computer, cooled cpu are all about it, and now it’s CPU micro-pumps. The goal of these micro-pumps is to reduce the heat the CPU is creating while being used because conventional heat-sink and fans won’t handle the more extreme heat in future chips. The pumping action is generated by a phenomenon which is called electrohydrodynamics. Such innovation should allow microprocessors using silicon to still be able to go to an higher level of operation by second (which was limited due to heat which would lead to electrical disruption). Until the futuristic quantum computer comes, we’ll rely on this new finding in order to stick with Moore’s law.