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Maybe I misunderstand.. but isn't it allowing electricity to flow without heating ?
by scawf 10y ago
Maybe I misunderstand.. but isn't it allowing electricity to flow without heating ?
- ranger207 10y agoNo, the electricity flowing will still generate heat. Flipping bits may not take a lot of power, but it does take power, and some of that power is converted into heat regardless of what material you use. Except maybe superconductors, but I'm not sure.
- AnimalMuppet 10y agoTo amplify a bit on what ranger207 said: Normally, metals are good conductors of heat, for the same reason that they are good conductors of electricity - the flow of electrons transports the heat. In a computer chip, the heat generation isn't (primarily) due to the flow of electricity along the conductors - it's primarily in the transistors (and IIRC, mainly in their switching).