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From: lindsay@MATHOM.GANDALF.CS.CMU.EDU (Donald Lindsay)
Newsgroups: comp.arch
Subject: Peltier cooler
Keywords: Velox ICECAP
Message-ID: <10022@pt.cs.cmu.edu>
Date: 26 Jul 90 20:32:37 GMT
Organization: Carnegie-Mellon University, CS/RI
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I just got some literature from Velox (in Santa Clara) about a
product they call an ICECAP.

It turns out to be a box, some inches deep, which uses a solid state
technology to cool a chip to zero degrees Celcius.  Peltier-effect
refrigeration has been known since 1838, so the technology is
believable.  It's intrinsically inefficient: one puts 3 to 6 watts
into the box for each watt that one wants transferred from the chip
to the heat sink.

The literature claims that they've used it to run an 80486 at 50 MHz.
Does anyone know if this is a reasonable claim?
-- 
Don		D.C.Lindsay