RE: [TCLUG:17312] Cooling? (Was Sig11)

["Schlough, Mark" <Mark.Schlough@mortgage.wellsFargo.COM>]

	So which element is the semiconductor in the chip?  Germanium?

> -----Original Message-----
> From:	Charles Clifton Fulton [SMTP:cf352197@oak.cats.ohiou.edu]
> Sent:	Monday, May 08, 2000 10:09 AM
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> Subject:	Re: [TCLUG:17312] Cooling? (Was Sig11)
> 
> Silicon doesn't become a superconductor at any temperature but colder is
> always better.  In all reality it becomes about twice as efficient at
> around -50C so you don't really have to get it all that cold to see a
> pretty big benefit.
> 
> Charlie Fulton
> 
> On Sun, 7 May 2000, Colin Kilbane wrote:
> 
> > Liquid N2?  We don't need no liquid N2! Go for the gold, liquid He. I
> > wonder if Intel has tested their processors at 4 kelvin. Does silicon
> > go supercondting at extreme temperatures. You could unplug your
> computerand 
> > it would run for weeks. Don't get your tounge stuck to the keyboard!
> > 
> > Colin Kilbane
> > 
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