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Tiny thermometers offer on-chip temperature monitoring for processors

The semiconductor chips driving modern-day computer processors are covered in billions of individual transistors, each of which can overheat under stress, causing steep drops in performance. To ...
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Thermometer smaller than ant’s antenna detects computer chip’s temperature in seconds

Researchers at Penn State in the US have developed a microscopic, 2D-material-based thermometer designed ...