WTF is solid state active cooling? We’ve just seen it working on a mini PC
Frore announced this week at the Computex 2023 exhibition in Taiwan that its first customer is Hong Kong's Zotac for its ZBOXI ZBOX PICO PI430AJ, a mini-PC that packs a 12th-gen Intel Core i3 and 8GB of RAM into a tiny 115 × 76 × 22mm chassis – slightly larger than a pack of cards.
Frore believes small is beautiful and hopes many more products will follow, selling the AirJet for tightly-packed devices in which passive heat management means lesser CPUs are deployed, or silicon is throttled back to avoid overheating. A very small active-cooling device, Frore argues, means designers can either use more powerful components and contain the heat they produce, or run CPU cores at higher intensity for longer.
But execs think AirJet could have a role cooling SSDs or memory. Frore is aware of chatty workloads making SSDs run hot, and of rising memory-pooling standard Compute Express Link likely leading to machines crammed full of RAM. They’re pondering a play to have AirJets on SSDs to cool arrays, or possibly on memory packages.
One factor limiting the tech is the need for an air intake. Frore is confident it can defeat dust, but never suggested the tech is waterproof. Smartphones may be off limits, for now. And if this has all been done before, so be it. As Lester used to say, what of it? We thought this little gadget might be, ahem, cool enough to mention here on
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