“Frore Systems’ Air Jet: Revolutionary New Technology for Cooling Computers and Electronics”

The company Frore Systems in San Jose has developed a new technology for air cooling of computers and other electronics. It is called Air Jet and involves using vibrating membranes that produce a strong negative pressure that causes air to flow through the circuit and dissipate heat, writes The Verge.

At CES at the beginning of the year, prototypes were shown, but now the first product using Air Jet has been launched and is due to go on sale by the end of the year. It is about the small desktop computer Zbox PI430AJ Pico from Zotac, an Intel Nuc-like story that is sold for the equivalent of SEK 6,500 with processor and memory but without SSD.

The computer has a Core I3-N300 processor with a normal clock frequency of 800 megahertz, 8 gigabytes of working memory, hdmi and display port, ethernet and three usb connectors. Zotac’s latest mini PC with Core I3 had a huge heatsink to avoid having a fan, but still couldn’t run at full speed for more than short periods of time.

The new computer will be sold with and without Air Jet, and in a demonstration for The Verge, Frore shows how efficient the technology is: With Air Jet, it is around 10 frames per second in repeated runs of the Furmark benchmark test, while the model without barely manages 1 frame per second second. A thermal camera clearly shows how the Air Jet cooler blows out hot air from the back of the computer.

A single Air Jet Pro cooler provides a net cooling of 8.75 watts, Frore claims, which is enough to cool a Steam Deck. A smaller model called the Air Jet Mini provides 4.25 watts of cooling power.