Screw you

I watched a video of a guy trying out the new Rasberry PI 400, a single board PC integrated into a keyboard. At one point he unscrewed the device to look at the circuit board inside. Normally I would think that they shouldn't screw around, I don't care about how it looks inside but this time was different. I was amazed at the simple solution to stopping the microprocessor from overheating. What they did is they got a corrugated sheet of metal and had it pressing against the microchip, the sheet of metal takes up roughly the same surface area as the keyboard itself. They cleverly used all the free space inside the machine to house a large heat sink that conducts the heat away from the chip. The man was able to run some very demanding software programs on the system and the microprocessor didn't go very much above 50°c so there was no fan or any moving parts that would wear down over time. 

To me this was amazing on many levels. If that device was made at the time I was born, it would be called a supercomputer, it was doing things the computers in the past couldn't do.  It is also amazing to me that they found away to stop the microprocessor from overheating without using fluid pumps or fans. There was no moving parts inside the computer. It is also amazing that they are putting a whole system on a Chip, a single micro processor was doing things an entire ATX pc box would normally do. Everything in this world is getting smarter, light bulbs, computers, speakers, phones. Even the roads are getting smart, they are putting sensors in the roads to help reconfigure traffic lights in the best way. Microprocessors do more now than ever before and they are everywhere.