AirJet Cooling Chip Coming First to $500 Eight-Core Mini PC Later This Year

pcmag.com:

A new, and perhaps revolutionary, way to cool computers is finally coming to an actual PC product. On Tuesday, Frore Systems announced its AirJet cooling module is slated to land in a mini PC from Zotac, a well-known innovator in compact desktops.

Zotac is using the AirJet to pack a more powerful eight-core Intel 3.8GHz “Alder Lake-N” processor into the 4-inch-long mini PC. In previous, fanless iterations of this Zotac chassis, the company could only employ lower-powered Celeron or Pentium chips. 

In contrast to traditional cooling fans, the AirJet module can lie atop a chip or chips and produce, via internal vibrations, a powerful suction force capable of pulling air through the AirJet's body and exhausting it from a laptop or other hardware. The improved and quieter cooling means the PC can run at higher speeds for a better performance gain, inside device form factors that could never fit a physical fan. AirJet cooling chips are thin and relatively small, taking up less space in all dimensions than old-school chassis fans. That makes them especially suited to mobile devices and the most compact PCs of all shapes.  

Back in December, Frore Systems debuted the AirJet cooling chip, and it generated some buzz with its promise to enable drastically improved cooling in tighter spaces across the tech ecosystem. But the big question has been when the technology will end up in consumer products. 

Zotac is now poised to be among the first. The upcoming mini PC will be marketed more to businesses, rather than consumers. Still, Frore Systems says it’s been working with a growing number of companies, including consumer hardware vendors, in incorporating the AirJet technology. 

“We’re in pretty advanced stages of integrating our