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Chips could harvest their own energy using a newly-created alloy (www.techspot.com)

submitted 4 months ago by Tywele@lemmy.dbzer0.com to c/technology@lemmy.world

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[–] sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works 6 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

It might be interesting to use waste heat to power fans. That's right in that range for power needs, and it could be largely self-contained.

For something like a data center, that could add up.

[–] Static_Rocket@lemmy.world 6 points 4 months ago

Data centers will probably be the only practical application. Consumer electronics will probably barely produce enough energy to power the regulator and tie-in circuit just to feed back into the pwm driver for fans nowadays.