News Intel and ExxonMobil working on advanced liquid cooling — laying groundwork for 2000W TDP Xeon chips

[Admin]

Intel and ExxonMobil have announced they will collaborate to develop advanced liquid cooling technology. The companies will work closely during their multi-year collaboration to 'develop and certify next-generation, energy-efficient, liquid-based cooling technologies' writes the oil giant.

Intel and ExxonMobil working on advanced liquid cooling — laying groundwork for 2000W TDP Xeon chips : Read more

 

[gg83]

I mean ExxonMobil engineers are probably some of the master of fluid dynamics.

 

[Flayed]

Maybe the tech will trickle down into the consumer space. 1KW i5 anyone?

 

[JTWrenn]

We need to lower power usage from datacenters and instead they are just working on how to handle higher power usage. Would much rather see them pair with a material company to make lower energy usage solutions.

 

[Amdlova]

We need to lower power usage from datacenters and instead they are just working on how to handle higher power usage. Would much rather see them pair with a material company to make lower energy usage solutions.

They are lowering the foot print of data center... with a 2000w cpu can remove lot of hacks and additional heat and power loss from power supplies.
2000w cpu can heat a small sized house, You can build data center's close to neighborhoods and trade some heat energy and be maximum green possible.
It's a big win when big data center can heat a small town in some place like Iceland

 

[thestryker]

We need to lower power usage from datacenters and instead they are just working on how to handle higher power usage. Would much rather see them pair with a material company to make lower energy usage solutions.

2000W might seem bad, but it's all about compute density. Think of it this way if a 2P 2000W CPU based server can replace at least 6x 2P 350W CPU based servers there is going to be a large amount of power savings. Immersion cooling is usually more efficient than liquid or air as well so if they can get a non-PFAS based system working that should be more power savings.

 

[dalek1234]

2000 Watts? So instead of making CPUs more energy efficient (something Intel is seriously lacing in and doesn't have much of a future as a company without doing so), they are preparing for CPUs that suck up even more power. Does that mean they gave up on making their CPUs considerably more power-efficient? Kind of sounds like it to me.