Taiwan Component Makers Want Heatpipes in Smartphones
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exfileme
April 15, 2014 11:02:02 AM
Eventually, heatpipes will become the norm.
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liveforcars
April 15, 2014 11:32:20 AM
Shankovich
April 15, 2014 11:33:00 AM
Don't see why. Not many phone chips make enough heat to make the pipes feasible. I can see the advantage but I mean what's the gain? No chips get hot enough to cause significant leakage. Heat pipes would allow more powerful chips, but then you'll kill the battery before lunch. A lot more R&D needs to go into the battery tech first, not cooling and screen resolution.
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anthony8989
April 15, 2014 11:42:24 AM
ddpruitt
April 15, 2014 11:49:58 AM
David Dewis
April 15, 2014 11:54:05 AM
firefoxx04
April 15, 2014 12:20:15 PM
derekullo
April 15, 2014 12:59:13 PM
ekagori
April 15, 2014 3:43:56 PM
MaxTesla
April 15, 2014 4:12:35 PM
ewok93
April 15, 2014 6:06:40 PM
Maybe better cooling will allow for a better battery in the future, but I agree adding cooling will only allow for a more powerful phone, meaning higher power draw, because that's really all the heat is, power. Although, I have a Nexus 5, and it gets hot and has huge throttling issues, so a better cooling system would help. I think that better cooling will help a lot of phones, but if it exceeds the phone's heat output, they'll just increase the power usage, making the battery life even shorter. You can't upgrade the cooling without upgrading the battery, basically.
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Jaroslav Jandek
April 16, 2014 12:49:28 AM
Sure, this would improve the throttling issues current phones have - I've seen Snapdragon 800 doing worse than S600 that in turn was doing worse than S400 in overall performance due to throttling (kids messing with the phones - playing games, etc.).
The end result would be more powerful SoCs and the same throttling issues as before and even more pathetic battery life.
Also, the heatpipes would just spread all the heat generated by the SoC to a larger area, therefore making the whole phone hot - not to mention more expensive. For a PC, that is fine, but for a phone that you hold in your hands, that's undesirable (at least for me).
The end result would be more powerful SoCs and the same throttling issues as before and even more pathetic battery life.
Also, the heatpipes would just spread all the heat generated by the SoC to a larger area, therefore making the whole phone hot - not to mention more expensive. For a PC, that is fine, but for a phone that you hold in your hands, that's undesirable (at least for me).
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rwinches
April 16, 2014 4:35:40 AM
What a bunch of nimrods, completely thrown into a tizzy by a picture.
And so many stupid/ignorant statements about Socs not getting hot.
I can't wait for these to be more widely used in tablets so overclocking won't fry your chip, maybe coupled with an electronic piezo fan.
The number of smartphones with longer talk times is growing rapidly.
And so many stupid/ignorant statements about Socs not getting hot.
I can't wait for these to be more widely used in tablets so overclocking won't fry your chip, maybe coupled with an electronic piezo fan.
The number of smartphones with longer talk times is growing rapidly.
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piropeople13
April 17, 2014 9:01:38 AM
rwinches
April 17, 2014 7:08:47 PM
danwat1234
April 24, 2014 8:20:33 AM
The heatpipe would be useful if the SOC could clock up when plugged in. Then the phone could do a lot more BOINC (distributed computing) work when plugged in or use more sophisticated software without bogging down. But I think it's use is limited because without heatpipes they can still design a phone where the chassis is the heatsink. With a heatpipe the only real advantage would happen if there was active air flow I think.
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fil1p
May 9, 2014 8:59:34 PM
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In the desktop PC market, the typical heatpipe will range from 1 mm to 2 mm in diameter.Don't think I've seen any 1 mm - 2 mm heat pipes in the desktop PC market. Usually CPU and GPU heat pipes are 5-10 mm in diameter.
True, and while they do exist in smaller sizes they are not typically used due to their higher cost. In general the more compact heatpipe designs are more expensive to manufacture.
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Eihcal
May 11, 2014 6:21:52 PM
Master467
May 12, 2014 6:39:54 AM
ewok93
May 12, 2014 6:45:45 AM
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