Frore AirJet: How the solid-state PC cooling of the future works

The Frore Systems AirJet Mini and AirJet Pro are active cooling chips that enable devices to become even thinner, quieter, cooler, and more powerful. The technology has the potential to replace conventional fans in PCs and other devices and is being promoted as an efficient alternative to conventional fan systems.

The AirJet is a self-contained, solid-state, active heat dissipation module that operates quietly while being very thin and lightweight. It removes heat without using bulky heatsinks, fans, or liquid cooling, making it suitable for very low-profile and dust-tight devices.

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The AirJet Mini can be connected to its target device via a copper heat exchanger and is equipped with tiny membranes that vibrate ultrasonically to generate the required airflow. It is claimed to be 10 times more effective than a fan and can be scaled by adding more chips to remove additional heat. The more powerful AirJet Pro removes 10.5 watts of heat at 24 dBA and consumes a maximum of 1.75 watts of power.

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AirJet consist of a solid cooling module, which actively removes heat from the heat source, and an ultrasonic transducer, which is responsible for the air movement. The ultrasonic transducer generates high-frequency sound waves that hit a membrane and cause it to vibrate.

This creates an air flow that removes the heat from the heat source. This combination of solid cooling and ultrasonic technology makes AirJet a powerful and quiet cooling solution.

Compared to conventional PC fans, AirJet offers a number of advantages that emphasize their application potential in various devices, from thin notebooks to mini desktop PCs, gaming smartphones, 4K webcams, doorbell cameras, and LED lamps. It’s already being offered in a Zotac mini-PC, and at CES 2024, Frore showed off how the AirJet Mini can be used to eradicate performance throttling in heat-sensitive SSDs.

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A concrete application example for the AirJet is the potential improvement in the performance of Apple’s MacBook Air, which is known to work without a fan. By integrating the AirJet system, a remarkable improvement in the cooling and performance of the device is achieved, as shown in the video below.

According to Frore Systems, the AirJet can increase cooling performance by up to 30 percent compared to conventional fans, while reducing noise levels by up to 15 dB. We’ve witnessed product demonstrations that displayed exactly that.

Frore Systems’ AirJet technology has the potential to replace conventional fan systems in a wide range of devices, providing more powerful and quieter cooling. The company also plans to develop the next generation of AirJet, which will be even thinner than the current versions but dispel the same amount of heat, using a principle it cheekily dubs “Frore’s Law.”

This article was translated from German to English and originally appeared on pcwelt.de.

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