ABSTRACT:

In the next five years the heat flux on the microprocessor chip will rise only modestly owing to the industry-wide effort to decrease the power-bus voltage. Instead, the demands for ever more compact systems will reduce the physical space available for coolant. Accordingly, the motivation for liquid-cooling comes from the need to remove heat from constrained space. In the light of this perspective various aspects of liquid-cooling are discussed.

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