Why extreme-temperature computing matters

3:18okay there's no computation happening above 300° C but that doesn't mean that we don't want to have computation happening at that temperature okay there are a lot of applications that even I can think of here not being in the field. That would be really great to have at 300° or above. Okay, for example, oil and gas. Oil and gas drillers, they push deep into the Earth's crust. The deeper you get into the Earth's crust, the closer you're getting to the mantle where all of the magma is. So, the temperature is going to go up. At 5 km, you're flirting with like 150° C that's already pushing it. At 10 km, you're well past 300°. And the

3:59sensor packages that we have today, when you send them down these bore holes, they need to either operate with like an active cooling thing where like there's something with the the drill that's trying to cool the sensors. That's always >> not convenient. Not ideal. >> Yeah. And then and then they have to transmit their data to the surface in real time. They can't do any computation down there. >> Interesting. >> So then there's this like massive wiring problem that you have to deal with. The wires are going through this really hot. >> The engineering is way more complex unnecessarily if you could just have it. >> Yes. If you could just have like a chip that's right on top of the drill, right?

4:40That's right there. Then you can have something like an autonomous downhole drill like electronics that decides where to go right there. I mean, we've got all this AI, but we can't actually put that to use when we're going all the way down there, right? If in I'm going