PURDUE COLLABORATION PROPOSES COMPUTER-CHIP CENTER.

Electro Manufacturing, June, 2005

Researchers at Purdue University are collaborating with several other universities in proposing a new center to design technologies that will be needed in coming decades to cool advanced computer chips.

"The bottom line is that we've all got to begin working on this problem now, or the computer industry is going to hit a brick wall in about 15 years," said Suresh Garimella, a professor of mechanical engineering at Purdue University. "Future computer chips will generate as much as 10 times more heat than today's computer chips, which means we are going to need new cooling technologies."

Garimella organized a two-day Workshop on Electrothermal Co-Design of Future Electronics, which was held at Purdue in March for experts from industry, government and...

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