The hot computer chips and its users have something cool to rejoice about. A team of tech scientists at Prude University (in collaboration with Intel) has come up with a cooling technology that is much better and effective then the traditional cooling technology, which uses fan. They have designed a device, wind engine, which creates a cool wind made up of charged particles, or ions, to cool computer chips.

The problem with conventional cooling technology (using fan) is that molecules blowing inside a system, at times, become trapped on part of a chip, blocking airflow. 250 percent more effective than the conventional cooling techniques, this device works by shifting charged particles from one end of the device to the other.

As a voltage is applied to the ionic engine, positively charged particles (ions) are produced, and are dragged towards a negatively charged wire (a cathode), forcing constant air movement -- and when it is used in combination with a traditional fan, air molecules -- rather than getting stuck -- are floated across the chip's surface boosting cooling.

With advancement in computers, and the technology having more power punch -- the chips used are becoming densely packed with transistors, the basic building blocks of microprocessors. We are getting powerful and faster computer chips, but heat generation has also increased, immensely. This new device is slated, through ionic wind, to help dissipate heat and increase efficiency of chips.

However, it is still in prototype form, and has to be cut down to size to go inside the system, but when released for usage -- it is going to take away computer chips hotness but make it more cooler.

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