Frore Unveils AirJet Mini Slim: Solid-State Active Cooler Gets Slimmer and Smarter
by Anton Shilov on January 11, 2024 11:00 AM EST- Posted in
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Frore Systems has introduced a revamped version of its AirJet Mini solid-state active cooling system at CES 2024. The new AirJet Mini Slim device retained performance of its predecessor (the AirJet Mini), but is slightly thinner, slightly lighter, and smarter too, as it can now clean itself and sense its temperature.
On performance side of matters, the AirJet Mini Slim generates 1750 Pascals of back pressure and can dissipate up to 5.25W of heat (at 85°C die temperature and at 25°C ambient temperature), which is in line with its predecessor. It also maintains an identical footprint of 27.5 x 41.5 mm as the original solid-state active cooling system.
Overall, there are two key enhancements in the AirJet Mini Slim compared to its predecessor: its thickness has been reduced to just 2.5mm, coming down from the previous 2.8mm; and it has become lighter, now weighing a mere 8 grams, down from 9 grams.
Another significant upgrade of the AirJet Mini Slim is its intelligent self-cleaning system, which reverses the airflow to remove any accumulated dust in the filters to ensure consistent performance of the cooler itself as well as device it is cooling down. Frore says that the capability is backwards compatible with the original AirJet Mini, which probably indicates that it is enabled by firmware or software.
Finally, the AirJet Mini Slim introduces thermal sensor — called Thermoception — that enabled the cooler to independently sense its own temperature and adapt its cooling efficiency as needed. This self-contained function is particularly advantageous for devices that cool down things which do not have their own temperature sensors, such as processors, SSD controllers, and memory chips.
All of the refinements of Frore's AirJet Mini Slim serve two purposes: expand the addressable markets for these solid-state active cooling systems and make them more adaptable to needs of customers.
"Reducing the chip's thickness by 0.3mm is a game-changer for products requiring excellent thermal management in increasingly thinner devices," said Dr. Seshu Madhavapeddy, Founder and CEO of Frore Systems. "AirJet Mini Slim will bring much-needed performance improvements to ultra-thin electronic devices like fanless laptops, tablets, and smartphones."
What remains to be seen is when we are going to see Frore's AirJet Mini Slim in actual devices. While there are numerous companies evaluating the technology, so far there are just a handful of products that have reached the market that use AirJet Minis.
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Orfosaurio - Thursday, January 11, 2024 - link
Great.Threska - Thursday, January 11, 2024 - link
Better chipset fans.Dante Verizon - Thursday, January 11, 2024 - link
Could two of these keep the temperature of a pcie5 ssd in check?ballsystemlord - Thursday, January 11, 2024 - link
Based on what I've read, the maximum amount of power that an M.2 SSD can draw is 10W.Therefore, if your unnamed PCIe 5 SSD dissipates less than or equal to 5.25W in a 25C environment then the answer is "yes".
But let's try and use a real world example, shall we? The recently announced PCIe 5.0 SSD Samsung 990 consumes 11W according to toms. Therefore the AirJet line of products would not be able to cool it.
The Sabrent Rocket 5 still hasn't been released yet and I'm unaware of any other PCIe 5.0 SSDs. So maybe you'll find one that is more conservative in terms of power dissipation, which will translate into lower performance, thus begging the question, why not just go with a PCIe 4.0/3.0 SSD?
ballsystemlord - Thursday, January 11, 2024 - link
EDIT: Seems my last read on the subject of power draw was a bit dated. SSDs can currently consume up to 15W with spikes being higher. Currently, work is underway to double that amount to 30W. See: https://sabrent.com/blogs/storage/ssd-power-consum...bernstein - Thursday, January 11, 2024 - link
What are those handful of devices? If the tech is as good as everybody claims, why hasn‘t apple (or anyone else) gobbled up the company??!!nandnandnand - Thursday, January 11, 2024 - link
Notably the Zotac ZBOX pico PI430AJ WITH AIRJET. Possibly some SSD products.meacupla - Friday, January 12, 2024 - link
It's probably because they are a relatively new startup, and don't have the capital to make a large factory.Companies like Apple, etc. demand that certain quotas be met, and Frore doesn't have that production capacity.
They seem to be advertising heavily to the tech market in the hopes of investors. Either that, or be outright bought out by Apple, or Cooler Master, etc.
For now, they are being used to cool NVMe drives, and that Zotac box.
MartenKL - Friday, January 19, 2024 - link
Because currently this is not really a solution. They have yet to prove that this can scale up and 5 watts can be passively dissipated. I am very sceptical to this solution. They themself state that they need to draw 20% of target dissipation. This is very inefficient. Like if a 150 W CPU-cooler needed 30 watts for its fans.nandnandnand - Thursday, January 11, 2024 - link
"Another significant upgrade of the AirJet Mini Slim is its intelligent self-cleaning system, which reverses the airflow to remove any accumulated dust in the filters to ensure consistent performance of the cooler itself as well as device it is cooling down."So this is dust trapped on/in the dust filter, not inside the internals of the AirJet unit which presumably would be devastated if dust accumulated?