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Kinda fitting to think we might see Nvidia cards with literal diamonds in them.
Except man made diamonds cost pennies to make compared to natural diamond
I’m sure Nvidia would disagree. Everything is expensive to them.
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Finally a good use for diamonds.
you know they’re used as a cutting tool
Yes, I do.
so just sayin theyre not all sparklers on marilyn monroe’s finger as she strokes her mink shawl
Diamonds are the most over rated gems in existence. The notion of their rarity was fabricated to inflate their price; it is one of the most common gems, to the point there are places in our solar system where it rains diamonds. And even on Earth, the existing reserves are very carefully controlled to ensure prices do not drop because if it were to be commercially escavated at full capacity, it would flood and dunk the market, permanently.
So finding other uses for pure carbon gems is a plus, although the ones going into this use will certainly be synthetic ones.
Finally! I read about diamond thermal paste and heat spreaders 20 years ago.
This is a substrate, the piece that holds all the parts of a CPU together and that is currently made using fibreglass
That’s much better!
Finding a highly abundant material that cools better would be a smarter solution.
Natural diamonds aren’t even rar, it’s just one big business family owning pretty much every mine on earth. Even jewelry diamonds could be very cheap without artificial price manipulation.
However they’ll use artificially produced industry diamonds for CPUs. Since they’ll be very tiny and purity probably doesn’t matter too much, this is likely a relatively cheap process too. I doubt they’ll want to lose on revenue.
Funny thing is naturally sourced diamonds have often more impurities than man made ones.
Natural diamonds are (carbon.)rar.
Is carbon not abundant?
It’s not as if they’re using diamonds hand-mined by children in Africa or something… That’s the jewelry market. Synthetic diamond is in a ton of stuff, and it’s not really that expensive. The “material” is just carbon.
Excuse me, but they’re only diamonds if they come from regions with soil drenched in the blood of child workers. From other regions it’s called “sparkling rocks”.
