Fed Up With Noisy Laptop Fans? Fanless Cooling Tech Could Soon Bring You Peace

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An innovative cooling solution could mean the death of your laptop's fan if it's as efficient as its creators think it is. San Jose-based Frore Systems has developed a revolutionary new “cooling chip” that can be built in to provide superior—near-silent—cooling for everything from the best ultrabooks to the best VR headsets.

And it's not passive cooling. Although they don't have fans, these chips (called "AirJets") provide active airflow by vibrating very thin membranes within the chip at ultrasonic frequencies to create jets of air. A name is nothing if it doesn't fit.

This process provides cooling by drawing in cold air through small holes in the top surface of the chip and then blowing it through a narrow chamber at the bottom where it meets the heatsink. The spreader absorbs heat from a cooling component (such as the copper heatpipes used in most laptop processors) and distributes it through the AirJet's internal airflow, pushing stale hot air out one end of the chip.

Even the best laptops can have issues with the drone under heavy load (except, of course, the famous fanless MacBook Air), and the solution from Frore System can completely eliminate this problem.

Available in two flavors, the larger and more powerful AirJet Mini and AirJet Pro, this technology is far superior to traditional laptop fans due to the significant air pressure generated by a small chamber inside a 2.8mm chip. to growth. .

According to the creators, AirJet operates at a speed of 21 dB. It is quieter than a human whisper, approaching the lower levels of human hearing; For reference, the average laptop fan is over 40db, while normal audio is around 65db. The chip also requires very little power, one watt for an AirJet Mini.

Frere Systems also claims to be powering a passively cooled laptop with four AirJet Mini units and has found that the processor can run at full turbo frequency without problems, while using the existing passive cooling system causes problems. lower frequency.

Frere is currently working with Intel and its laptop partners to introduce a new laptop with AirJet cooling by the end of 2023 (hopefully), but don't worry; This is new technology, and CNX Software noted that Fröre had previously stated that this cutting-edge technology would be offered at "competitive" prices, so we can expect it to appear exclusively on high-end devices.

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