Infinix creates a "3D Vapor Cloud Chamber", which improves on conventional designs by 3°C

21 July 2022
The company's R&D department continues to work on new ways to improve smartphone cooling.

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Anonymous , 24 Jul 2022Such a jobless apple troll. Alway comes with bs again and a... moreCongratulations, like a proper Anon you are, you managed to bring Apple into this discussion. Somehow. Brilliant. Because you're such an expert now because you said absolutely nothing of worth here. Less than nothing actually. This is about cooling solutions, Anon troll.

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    SShock, 22 Jul 2022Have you actually read the thing? The heatpipe was 40cm lon... moreSuch a jobless apple troll. Alway comes with bs again and again with having any sort of education

      Anonymous , 21 Jul 2022If they do 3d vcc with the snapdragon chips it will be amaz... morePlay Pubg or any other high end game on helio, you'll learn

        Cat123, 22 Jul 2022I love it when people who know jack about thermodynamics co... moreHave you actually read the thing? The heatpipe was 40cm long with 2,5cm thickness at widest point and was experiencing a 20W heat load. Tell me, how does that apply to ANY smartphone application? You're such expert in thermodynamics yet you don't know that heatpipes are not universal and they are fine tuned for particular temperature ranges and heat loads.

        Literally a quote from Wiki about heatpipes:
        "Heat pipes must be tuned to particular cooling conditions. The choice of pipe material, size, and coolant all have an effect on the optimal temperatures at which heat pipes work."

        Just because it works doesn't mean it's working at optimal or best rate.

        But whatever, what do I know...

          The liquid doesn't need to boil to evaporate. That's what the wick's very high surface area is useful for. The liquid just needs to be at a sufficiently high temperature (i.e. 60~70 degree C) for it to work efficiently. Also, ethanol and methanol can dry up even in enclosed containers (just like Hydrogen and Helium escape completely enclosed containers). Therefore water is used for electronics' cooling and is the best medium suited for this purpose.

            SShock, 22 Jul 2022I love how confident you are at being incorrect. Yes, water... moreI love it when people who know jack about thermodynamics comment so confidently with incorrect information.

            Here's a research paper which compares the heat transfer performance of water, ethanol and methanol, that directly contradicts whatever this poster just wrote:

            https://reader.elsevier.com/reader/sd/pii/S2090447913000361?token=4BAAE028C0B7D65910006ECA6BDA7AA967C6BC7EF317482328704701F5F30F67AE02BDB948361753E13440B0BAE2227E&originRegion=eu-west-1&originCreation=20220722210645

            Conclusion (a) of the research paper states:
            "It was shown that water is the best working fluid among the other working fluids regarding the higher temperature and heat transfer coefficient in the evaporator section."

              Cat, 22 Jul 2022There is water inside heatpipes used for cooling electronic... moreI love how confident you are at being incorrect. Yes, water CAN be used. But not for smartphones (last time I checked, we are talking about smartphone application of heatpipe/vapor chamber here) because it's boiling point of 100°C makes it rather useless here. That's where my mention of "fine tuned for application" in my post comes in. The liquid used inside heatpipes defines the temperature range you're expected to have cooled element at. For use in smartphones you need boiling point far below boiling point of water because chipsets never run that hot. You can also have heatpipes that have mercury inside that has a boiling point of 350°C. Which is meant for applications of heatpipes where heat you're trying to pull away is at around that temperature. Using such heatpipe on smartphone or even desktop PC processor would be incredibly infefficient if not straight up non functional.

              Water has a boiling point of around 100°C at atmospheric pressure. Tell me, what smartphone chipset heats up anywhere close to that? You can't have an effective heatpipe system if liquid inside doesn't evaporate. Ethanol on the other hand has a boiling point of 78°C. Factoring in possibility of vacuum inside and the boiling point further shifts.

              It's also funny how no one noticed in JRE's teardown videos where he cuts into vapor chamber and points his blade at dropplets inside which quickly evaporate and disappear (in matter of seconds). Water doesn't do that such short time. Ethanol however does. I also don't know why they'd complicate things by using vacuum and water to achieve what you can in atmospheric pressure using ethanol. It's easier to manufacture and less likely to leak if it's at atmospheric pressure and just appropriate liquid used inside.

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                There is water inside heatpipes used for cooling electronics. Anyone who says otherwise doesn't know jack.

                  Anonymous, 21 Jul 2022iphone expert who dont know nothing about tech Bwuahahahahahahaahahahaahahaha. It's astounding what kind of derps are rolling around this place accusing others of "not knowing tech" and seriously believing there is WATER inside heatpipes and vapor chambers. You can't make this s**t up lol

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                    • 22 Jul 2022

                    we all love a company who tries to be relevant

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                      • 22 Jul 2022

                      they didn't even use proper flagship chip like sd8gen1 or d9000 yet they are talking new vapor chamber? must be a gimmick for their phone fans

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                        • 21 Jul 2022

                        Remove all Crap improve 40 degrees

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                          SShock, 21 Jul 2022Vapor chambers and heatpipes don't have water inside. ... moreiphone expert who dont know nothing about tech

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                            CompactPhones5ever, 21 Jul 20223°C improvement in controlled lab tests, also known as 0,3°... moreI partly agree with you, the thing is phones are so much controlled and everything closely integrated together that it could be possible to have the same results in lab tests in real life. It is not the case for a computer for example, where manufacturers can't make up with the infinite number of combinations of different vendor parts. For phones they seal everything and know exactly what is inside, so they can more easily emulate what is in the lab.

                              3°C improvement in controlled lab tests, also known as 0,3°C improvement in real life.

                                Hopefully it won't contribute to the phone's thickness

                                  you have to suffer, 21 Jul 2022this is useless when it comes to infinix spamming phones wi... morenot sure if joke or you dont understand vapour chambers. they're sealed, so it can't dry because the water/vapour is always inside. the water evaporates and condenses in a cycle that moves heat away from the hot components towards cooler areas which eventually releases heat to the outside of the phone

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                                    SShock, 21 Jul 2022Vapor chambers and heatpipes don't have water inside. ... moreElectronic cooling water pipes contain water. Water doesn't need to boil to turn into a gas. It only needs to evaporate which it can do easily due to the high surface area of the wicking layers inside.

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                                      you have to suffer, 21 Jul 2022this is useless when it comes to infinix spamming phones wi... moreThe chamber is a closed environment. The liquid inside can't dry up. It can evaporate and condense when heated or cooled.

                                        Anonymous , 21 Jul 2022If they do 3d vcc with the snapdragon chips it will be amaz... moreThey dont even use good mtk chip, only 1 phone has D900 the rest has Ancient cortex A76 including their flagship.

                                        And what heat is cortex X series, every soc which use those cores will heat including Tensor, Exynos 2100/2200, Dimensity 9000 etc.