“Two Cents on the Cool-Tech Start-up Making MacBooks Chill Out”
Not Your Average Silicon Valley Field Trip
On one absolutely ordinary Friday not too long ago, I hopped in my car and darted down to a rather homely, single-story building in the heart of Silicon Valley. My target? A MacBook Air. But wait, there was no hoopla of security guards, no swanky PR agents, not even a sleek badge in sight. A visit to the Apple headquarters this certainly wasn’t. Instead, I’d embarked on a mission to San Jose just to gawk at an everyday MacBook with a secret twist.
The Frosty Facelift of the MacBook Air
Behind this covert operation was Frore Systems, a start-up poised with a neat $116 million in its back pocket. If that raised your eyebrows, wait till you hear about its inaugural product. The AirJet Mini, a svelte piezoelectric cooling chip weighing less than the lint in your pockets (just 9 grams!). It’s thinner than a George Washington and a Thomas Jefferson making close quarters (pun absolutely intended). This little contraption is such a cool cucumber that while it consumes a morsel of a watt, it has the superpower to ward off an additional 4.25 watts of heat from your device.
Frore Systems: The Unsung Heroes of Laptop Cooling
You’re probably thinking, “What’s next, a refrigerator that doubles as a space heater?” But think about this instead: how many laptop overheat stories ended with your favorite video game character in pixelated limboland? Or a YouTube stream of a panda sneezing frozen in your browser? Well, this start-up just might be the savior your laptop didn’t know it urgently needed.
Hot Take:
On that note, here’s my hot (or should we say cool) take. Just when you thought the folks that developed emojis have the best job in Silicon Valley, Frore Systems stepped up the game. It’s turning up the heat (in the most ironic sense of course) and using technology to plunge laptops into cooler futures. Gone will be the days when laptops doubled as overused ‘lap warmers.’ Suddenly, staying ‘cool’ under pressure has a whole new silicon-chilled meaning!
Original article: https://www.theverge.com/2023/11/27/23975368/frore-airjet-apple-macbook-air-fanless-mems
