Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S964856AbVJDRMS (ORCPT ); Tue, 4 Oct 2005 13:12:18 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S964854AbVJDRMS (ORCPT ); Tue, 4 Oct 2005 13:12:18 -0400 Received: from prgy-npn1.prodigy.com ([207.115.54.37]:49423 "EHLO oddball.prodigy.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S964858AbVJDRMS (ORCPT ); Tue, 4 Oct 2005 13:12:18 -0400 Message-ID: <4342B812.6080600@tmr.com> Date: Tue, 04 Oct 2005 13:12:50 -0400 From: Bill Davidsen User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.11) Gecko/20050729 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Linux Kernel Mailing List Subject: Re: what's next for the linux kernel? References: <20051002204703.GG6290@lkcl.net> <20051002230545.GI6290@lkcl.net> <20051003005400.GM6290@lkcl.net> <20051003015302.GP6290@lkcl.net> <20051003181924.GB8011@csclub.uwaterloo.ca> <20051004125354.GO10538@lkcl.net> <20051004134705.GQ7949@csclub.uwaterloo.ca> In-Reply-To: <20051004134705.GQ7949@csclub.uwaterloo.ca> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 923 Lines: 23 Lennart Sorensen wrote: > On Tue, Oct 04, 2005 at 01:53:54PM +0100, Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton wrote: > >> at 45nm the current leakage is so insane that the heat >> dissipation, through the oxide layer which covers the chip, >> ends up blowing the chip up. > > > Unless someone finds a way to reduce the leakage. It is worth a lot of > money to some companies to solve that problem after all. That's one way, the other is to find a way to cool such a chip. I see references to diamond substrate from time to time, good thermal conductor. So are other carbon forms, Fullerines, etc. Clearly reducing leakage is the optimal solution, "deal with the heat" is the other. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/