AirJet Mini & Pro from Silicon Valley startup Frore Systems will make you look at efficient cooling in a bold new way
Notebooks, phones, and tablets can get hot due to the workload. Manufacturers who design most of the popular 13-inch notebooks rely on passive cooling, which can reduce the processor power by up to seventy percent. This occurs when the processor heats to the heat limitations allowed (the thermal heat unit), which in turn will slow the processing down to let for passive cooling to take over, but in the process, you lose performance, and, as Frore Systems points out, “money.” Frore Systems’ new AirJet active cooling device works uniquely differently from standard heatsinks. Imagine the same 13-inch ultrathin notebook with its relatively large heat sink to push air through a fan and out the bottom of the laptop. This can be a problem as if you are blocking those air slots, heat is trapped inside, and you lose the effectiveness of the device, causing “throttling” of the processor. Frore System’s AirJet uses tiny vibrating membranes that create superfast pulsating jets, pushing the air out of the device forward instead of down. Using three airjet minis can be connected by a thermal copper strip that is connected to the processor and push the air out of the back of the 12-inch ultrathin laptop at 27 dB while doubling the processor power from 10W (since there is no proper way of cooling that thin of a notebook) to 20W of power. For larger systems, even more, processing power is saved, thanks to Frore Systems’ new AirJet cooling. The company, a Silicon Valley startup active for four years, is already working with Intel, Qualcomm, and GiS to incorporate the AirJet technology into the companies’ devices. However, the only information that we know at the time comes from Josh Newman, Intel Vice President and General Manager of Mobile Platforms, who is quoted that the new AirJet technology will be used with Intel Evo-based laptop designs in the future, and Madhavapeddy was unable to reveal any other future projects during his interview with PC World. — Dr. Seshu Madhavapeddy, Chief Executive, Frore Systems For more information about the new AirJet Mini and AirJet Pro devices and how they will change the future of cooling devices as we know them, check out their official website at froresystems.com. “We eliminate that problem because, in our case, you don’t need to have any vents at the bottom.”
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