Diamond-cooled GPUs are coming soon — startup claims 20C temp reduction, 25% more overclocking headroom as it seeks US govt funding for diamond-encrusted chip cooling solutions
Diamond-cooled GPUs are coming soon — startup claims 20C temp reduction, 25% more overclocking headroom as it seeks US govt funding for diamond-encrusted chip cooling solutions
CHIPS Act helps with $18.2 million in direct funding and $50 million in federal and state tax credits.
Finally! I read about diamond thermal paste and heat spreaders 20 years ago.
This is a substrate, the piece that holds all the parts of a CPU together and that is currently made using fibreglass
That's much better!
Kinda fitting to think we might see Nvidia cards with literal diamonds in them.
Except man made diamonds cost pennies to make compared to natural diamond
I'm sure Nvidia would disagree. Everything is expensive to them.
Hasn't IC Diamond been a thing since forever? What makes this different?
Finding a highly abundant material that cools better would be a smarter solution.
It's not as if they're using diamonds hand-mined by children in Africa or something... That's the jewelry market. Synthetic diamond is in a ton of stuff, and it's not really that expensive. The "material" is just carbon.
Excuse me, but they're only diamonds if they come from regions with soil drenched in the blood of child workers. From other regions it's called "sparkling rocks".
Natural diamonds aren't even rar, it's just one big business family owning pretty much every mine on earth. Even jewelry diamonds could be very cheap without artificial price manipulation.
However they'll use artificially produced industry diamonds for CPUs. Since they'll be very tiny and purity probably doesn't matter too much, this is likely a relatively cheap process too. I doubt they'll want to lose on revenue.
Funny thing is naturally sourced diamonds have often more impurities than man made ones.
Natural diamonds are (carbon.)rar.
Is carbon not abundant?