Who knew the solution to overheating tech wasn’t more fans or dunking your rig in liquid nitrogen, but straight-up zapping chips with lasers like a sci-fi spa treatment? Enter Maxwell Labs, the mad geniuses flipping the script on “dark silicon”—that annoying chunk of your processor that’s basically napping to avoid meltdown. Instead of wrestling heat like a sweaty wrestler, they’re converting it to light, recycling it back into power, and targeting hot spots with pinpoint precision. Goodbye, thermal bottlenecks; hello, chips running full throttle without turning into mini-suns. This breakthrough could supercharge data centers, green up energy use, and keep Moore’s Law from flatlining—talk about a cool revolution!

You Can Cool Chips With Lasers?!?!