{"525981":{"#nid":"525981","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Innovation Addresses Rising Thermal Challenges in Mobile Devices, Computers and Data Centers","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EIn the struggle to improve the performance of mobile devices such as smartphones, extending battery life is just one part of the effort.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ESystem designers must increasingly worry about removing heat, an unwanted byproduct of watching a YouTube video, shooting a selfie, or updating a Facebook page.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EIn the same way that physical limits on the size of transistors may throttle the performance growth promised by Moore\u2019s Law (the expectation that computer processing power will double about every two years), the challenge of removing heat from ever-smaller transistors also poses a threat to continued efficiency improvements. The resulting tradeoffs will affect everything that relies on integrated circuits \u2013 from mobile phones and tablets all the way up to high-performance computers and data centers the size of football fields.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EAt Georgia Tech, researchers are addressing these thermal challenges in broad and bold ways. Their efforts include designing chips that operate with less power, providing new forms of cooling, and optimizing data center operations.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cThe challenges on the small scale are very different from the challenges at the large scale,\u201d said Yogendra Joshi, a professor in Georgia Tech\u2019s George W. Woodruff School of Mechanical Engineering, whose research group studies thermal challenges in a comprehensive way. \u201cEveryone wants more capabilities in the devices they are using, but there are tradeoffs to be made at each level.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ERead the \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.rh.gatech.edu\/features\/cooler-runnings\u0022\u003Ecomplete feature\u003C\/a\u003E on the Research Horizons website\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EAt Georgia Tech, researchers are addressing thermal challenges for electronic equipment in broad and bold ways. 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