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Samsung will keep using heat pipes in 2018, 2019 might bring vapor chambers

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Peter 17 November 2017

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Samsung adopted heat pipes with the Galaxy S7 and has used them for cooling on S and Note flagships since. This will continue with next year’s models according to sources from Samsung’s supply chain, which have already started small volume production.

Heat pipes add to the price so they are typically used only on flagships. Which works out fine since it’s the flagships that pack the most powerful chipsets and need cooling the most.

There’s an alternative – vapor chambers. They are some of the best ways to transfer heat and are used in high-end GPUs (think 250W). However, they cost even more than heat pipes and there is perhaps an even bigger flaw.

Vapor chambers are bulkier than heat pipes, which goes against the current trend of thin phones. That said, some makers can now make chambers as thin as 0.4mm. Many manufacturers are reportedly experimenting with vapor chambers but no one has built a phone with them yet.

Schematic of a vapor chamber

They are gaining in popularity on laptops, however, where manufacturers want to offer gaming performance on thin laptops. Even some non-gaming ultrabooks have started using them (e.g. the 10.9mm thick Asus ZenBook Flip S).

Inside sources believe there’s a very high chance that vapor chambers will make their way to high-end smartphones in 2019.

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  • Anonymous
  • kXE
  • 19 Nov 2017

First of all it would not have to be 20mm or greater in fact as you put it just to have all or most of those. And definitely would not have to be 500g or more. And actually way more people would in fact be perfectly fine with the size and weig...

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  • Anonymous
  • kXE
  • 19 Nov 2017

Those are all also relatively within 2mm thickness of each other. So you point makes it but theirs still stands.

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  • Anonymous
  • kXE
  • 19 Nov 2017

Everyone said 5.

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