On Thu, 9 Feb 2006 09:59:05 -0500, Keith Williams
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On Wed, 08 Feb 2006 12:33:34 -0600, Jon Elson
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Cliff wrote:
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2006/02...m_power6_show/

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The Power6 chip will run between 4GHz and 5GHz, and has been shown to hum away
at 6GHz in the lab. IBM reckons that some process technology breakthroughs have
allowed it to kick the frequency higher while still keeping heat and power
consumption issues under control. All told, IBM claims that Power6 will be twice
as fast as competing server processors from Intel, AMD and Sun Microsystems.
]

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IBM claims to have made major performance gains by stretching and squeezing
silicon and using insulation techniques.
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Oh, stressed silicon! Yes, this stuff really works. Unless
IBM is WAY ahead of the competition, it will be quite a few
years before you can buy this at the local computer store.


Cold fluorinert immersion! Expensive but VERY effective.

IBM tried that in the '70s. "Black plague" left by distillation
convinced them to abandon the idea in favor of the He filled
aluminum "Thermal Conduction Module". If you think today's PCs are
power hungry, these things had a power dissipation of up to 2kW.

http://www-03.ibm.com/ibm/history/ex...ntage/vintage_
4506VV2137.html

Expensive indeed!

As far as I know, fluorinert is NOT reactive with any metals at all.

It never affected any of our circuits, and we used it all the time
up to 50kV.