[TriLUG] Linksys long in the tooth?

[Jim Ray]

Sounds pretty cool ;-)


-----Original Message-----
From: trilug-bounces at trilug.org [mailto:trilug-bounces at trilug.org] On
Behalf Of Neil L. Little
Sent: Thursday, January 17, 2008 10:06 PM
To: Triangle Linux Users Group General Discussion
Subject: Re: [TriLUG] Linksys long in the tooth?

Read some stuff about a company down South Carolina whose idea is to put

"copper pillars" on the hot spots of a microprocessor chip. Then put 
Peltier junctions on top of those and then transfer the thermal energy 
down pins into the mother board. A motherboad with a heat sink on the 
bottom?

There are other forays off into the left field. Higher densities using 
gallium arsenide. Electron Spin transistors (ooh! right out of an Eric 
Flynn story!).
Even piezio electric nanopumps that pump coolant right through nano 
pores in the substrate itself.

73,
Neil, WA4AZL
JARS Forever!!

Jim Ray wrote:
> Beware of folks that use Cuisinart to fabricate semiconductors. They
> might use the rapid thermal anneal for their grilled cheese
sandwich...
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: trilug-bounces at trilug.org [mailto:trilug-bounces at trilug.org] On
> Behalf Of James Brigman
> Sent: Thursday, January 17, 2008 2:08 PM
> To: Triangle Linux Users Group General Discussion
> Subject: Re: [TriLUG] Linksys long in the tooth?
>
> Preach it brutha. You da man. 
>
> But beware the equipment with the low-voltage, hi current power
> supplies! Beware! Beeee-waeeeerrrrrr!...
>
> JKB
>
> On Wed, 2008-01-16 at 10:16 -0500, Jim Ray wrote:
>   
>> I had one heck of a time chunking boron, phosphorous and silicon in
my
>>     
> Cuisinart and coming out with a semiconductor yet seem to remember a
> threshold of 0.7 V due to semiconductor physics (nevermind is it a
wave
> or particle). The trend I have seen is a lowering of the voltage such
> that the transistors do not go as far into saturation as they used to
go
> years gone by when 5V was popular.
>   
>> I suspect we will continue to see a lowering of the voltage,
>>     
> increasing of the speed and lowering of the power on a
> transistor-by-transistor basis.
>   
>> Reliability, however, is determined more by statistics following
>>     
> semiconductor fabrication more so than voltage of a power supply.
>   
>> Regards,
>>  
>> Jim
>>  
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