> Due to a phenomenon known as Joule heating – an unavoidable consequence of how they operate at a fundamental level – chips dissipate almost exactly the amount of power they consume as heat.

I don't think you'll ever make a chip not dissipate as heat the energy you feed into it for operation. Where else would it go?

90% of 30% of total energy use. So, actually 27%. What a title.

Original publication - https://www.cell.com/cell-reports-physical-science/fulltext/...

In the energy results they are comparing their novel water block cold plate against an air cooled facility, not against a similar water-cooled facility.

I heard copper is better an transferring heat but aluminum is better at RELEASING heat via airflow. Hence you see copper tubes on cpu coolers that terminate in aluminum fins.

We should block all stories with "could" in the headline; "could" implies conjecture - not news.

Copper is expensive, and the manufacturing process sounds finicky.

Until the micro/nano-patterned surface gets dirty at least.