American space agency NASA has developed essentially new computer chips which can work at a high pressure and temperature.
NASA representatives declare, their computer chips can now work even at temperature of 1 112,00 F. Chips have been created on a basis of silicon carbide (SiC), that has made them more steady in comparison with usual silicon developments which can not function at temperature above 350 degrees.

Also developers inform, that new chips, as against their predecessors, can work for 1700 hours at temperature of 500-600 degrees that is 100 times more, than the previous record. Application of silicon carbide has cardinally changed heat release, and this has made possible to use chips in engines of planes, industrial mechanical engineering, and also in the spacecrafts sent to such planets as Venus or Мercury.

In department have added, that the first silicon carbide based experiences have started in 1993, and in 2000 they have created the first component of the circuits, able to transfer an electric current at 600 degrees.

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