The laptop world is at a technological crossroads between proven traditional cooling solutions and emerging solid-state alternatives. While current market leaders use advanced conventional cooling, revolutionary solid-state approaches to the problem of excess heat from brands like Ventiva, Frore, and xMEMS promise to shake up the scene.

At CES 2025 Dell and Intel showed off a proof of concept laptop using the experimental cooling system from Ventiva. In this video Adam interviews Travis North, Sr. Distinguished Thermal Engineering Technologist at Dell, about this new system and why it’s a big deal for laptop cooling going forward.

CES used to be about the latest laptops. Now, announcements cover Dell abandoning its XPS, Inspiron and Latitude brands to mimic Apple’s naming system of Pro and Pro Max machines, and Nvidia’s move into a Blackwell AI computer for the desktop, as well as the world’ first 750Hz monitor based on quantum dots.
But it does cover some of the fundamental technologies, such as cooling systems for thinner AI laptops and even handsets. Ventiva has been showing its proof of concept design developed with Dell and Intel, and CEO Carl Schlachte talks to eeNews Europe about the technology.

主動式散熱解決方案業者Ventiva 在此次CES 2025 期間與Intel 合作，將其ICE9散熱設計方案用於搭載Intel代號「Lunar Lake」的Core Ultra 200V系列處理器，並且與Dell合作打造概念筆電 ，藉此實現在厚度不到1.2公分的筆電加入高效且靜音 的散熱表現。

CES-messuilla on nähty myös eksoottisempia jäähdytysratkaisuja. Kenties mielenkiintoisin niistä on Ventivan ICE, jota esiteltiin yhteistyössä Dellin kanssa.

Ventiva ICE- eli Ion Cooling Engine -jäähdytysteknologia on siitä erikoinen, ettei siinä ole lainkaan liikkuvia osia. Liikkuvien osien sijasta se sisältää aukollisen kehyksen, jonka läpi kulkee ohut metallilanka, jonka läpi johdetaan jopa 5000 voltin jännite. Korkea jännite ionisoi ympäröivän ilman luoden sille positiivisen varauksen. Taustalla oleva pinta on puolestaan maadoitettu ja luo negatiivisen varauksen, mikä puolestaan saa ilman liikkumaan.

Ventiva company showcased at CES 2025 their fanless cooling system Ventiva ICE9 in a Dell laptop with an Intel Lunar Lake processor. The Ventiva ICE9 system is based on the company’s patented Ionic Cooling Engine (ICE) technology, which eliminates the need for mechanical fans and operates without moving parts, noise, or vibration. The ultra-compact ICE9 solution allows for the creation of laptops thinner than 12 mm. The compact form factor helps preserve the elegant design of laptops and equip them with a greater number of additional components due to the reduction in the cooling system size.

IT之家 1 月 10 日消息，无风扇散热技术企业 Ventiva 宣布，一款基于其 ICE 9“离子风”散热模块的笔记本原型在 CES 2025 上展出。

这台静音散热解决方案概念验证样机基于 Pro 14 Premium 商务本打造，搭载 Lunar Lake 处理器，为戴尔、英特尔、Ventiva 三方合作产品，将 12mm 及以下厚度静音笔记本的生产力提升到了一个新高度。

After over a decade of development, miniature, silent cooling technology was reducing the thickness of laptop designs at the CES 2025 show in Las Vegas this week.

IT之家 1 月 10 日消息，无风扇散热技术企业 Ventiva 宣布，一款基于其 ICE 9“离子风”散热模块的笔记本原型在 CES 2025 上展出。

这台静音散热解决方案概念验证样机基于戴尔 Pro 14 Premium 商务本打造，搭载英特尔 Lunar Lake 处理器，为戴尔、英特尔、Ventiva 三方合作产品，将 12mm 及以下厚度静音笔记本的生产力提升到了一个新高度.

La industria tecnológica enfrenta un cambio crucial en la manera en que maneja el enfriamiento de laptops, particularmente en aquellos equipos que integran procesadores diseñados para Inteligencia Artificial (IA).

Ventiva moves to the front of the ongoing horse race for laptop cooling chips.
Around Christmas time, Ventiva launched its Ionic Cooling Engine (ICE), the latest in what has been an unexpectedly disappointing industry of fanless cooling solutions for laptops. But with Ventiva, there’s a key difference: It has a customer.

Last year, we were excited to see the launch of Ventiva’s wizard-like ICE9 fanless cooling technology and were wowed by their invention’s ability to push massive amounts of air without making a sound. We’ve been eagerly awaiting a real-world implementation of this product in a laptop, and thanks to the joint efforts of Ventiva, Dell, and Intel, the company debuted a laptop cooled entirely by their ICE technology at CES 2025.

Ventiva in the US has worked with Dell and Intel to replace mechanical fans with electronic airflow, showing off a proof-of-concept thin laptop design.

Ventiva’s ion-based ICE9 thermal management suite is based on the company’s patented Ionic Cooling Engine (ICE) technology. This eliminates the need for mechanical fans, using intelligent software control to enable optimal performance in electronics devices without any moving parts, noise, or vibration.

After a controversial launch on the desktop, Intel is debuting its Arrow Lake processor for laptops here at CES 2025, hoping that the chip’s emphasis on low power has a more welcome reception. It’s the first time the Core Ultra branding has been rolled out for gaming laptops.

With the 2025 Consumer Electronics Show (CES) about to kick off in Las Vegas, some companies have had their announcements leaked ahead of schedule and Dell (and its Alienware sub-brand) have been heading the list. What follows is naturally not yet officially confirmed, but here are some of the early leaks, rumours, whispers and predictions about what Dell’s CES 2025 announcements.

Los ventiladores son esenciales para refrigerar un ordenador, también en los portátiles medianamente potentes. Pero abultan, son ruidosos, y vibran. La compañía Ventiva promete jubilarlos con su tecnología ICE: aire ionizado que se genera desde una placa, sin ruido ni vibración.

Aktive Kühlung ohne nerviges Lüfterrauschen, mit dieser Idee sorgte Frore Systems 2023 für einiges Aufsehen. Das Start-up Ventiva aus dem Silicon Valley verspricht nun eine deutlich leistungsfähigere und effizientere Lösung (via Tom’s Hardware).

With the rapid progress of technology, we’ve quickly learned that computers are absolutely dependent on thermals being under control. This can mean either with more efficient parts, like the newest generation CPUs, or it can also mean more efficient cooling methods. Ventiva is one such enterprise that is innovating in the cooling space.

Something to look forward to: Ventiva may have cracked the code for fanless cooling in relatively high-powered laptops and PCs. The thermal management company has introduced a new solution, dubbed ICE9, which can efficiently cool laptops with processors drawing up to 40W of power – all while remaining completely silent.

Most laptops with enough power to be worth your time have spinning fans to keep them cool. The days of laptop fans may be coming to an end, though. Ventiva has launched its ICE9 thermal management suite which is made to improve cooling for laptops without any spinning blades. This new solution gives users a silent, fan-less cooling experience specifically for powerful ultra-thin laptops.

Ventiva has just announced its ICE9 computer temperature management system, which operates absolutely silently and without any moving parts. It will soon be showcased at the CES exhibition—initially for processors up to 25W. By 2027, Ventiva expects to be able to cool laptops with a TDP up to 40W.

SOMETHING TO LOOK FORWARD TO: Ventiva may have cracked the code for fanless cooling in relatively high-powered laptops and PCs. The thermal management company has introduced a new solution, dubbed ICE9, which can efficiently cool laptops with processors drawing up to 40W of power – all while remaining completely silent.

Ventiva has just launched its innovative ICE9 thermal management suite that works completely silently and without any moving parts. It will launch with devices packing up to 25W processors at CES in a few days, but it is expected to be able to cool partner laptop designs up to 40 watts TDP by 2027.

Ventiva, một công ty công nghệ mới nổi, đang gây chú ý khi phát triển hệ thống làm mát thể rắn ICE (Ionic Cooling Engine), hứa hẹn giải quyết bài toán này bằng cách sử dụng lực đẩy ion để tạo luồng không khí mà không cần quạt. Dù nghe có vẻ lý tưởng, công nghệ này không phải không có những hạn chế cần lưu ý.

Ventiva, the leader in thermal solutions, today announced its ICE9 thermal management suite can now cool laptops that operate at up to 40 watts TDP (Thermal Design Power), enabling thinner, faster, and utterly silent computing devices—without the compromises of traditional, fan-based cooling systems. This allows the ICE9 solution to cool the powerful CPUs required for the next-generation of feature-rich, AI-enabled, high-performance laptops.

The ICE9 thermal management suite is based on Ventiva’s patented Ionic Cooling Engine (ICE) technology, which eliminates the need for mechanical fans, using intelligent software control to enable optimal performance in electronics devices—without any moving parts, noise or vibration.

Ventiva in the US has launched a ion-based fanless cooling system that can handle 40W thermal requirements in ultrathin laptops.

The Ionic Cooling Engine (ICE) engine generates ions that are repelled from the emitter to create airflow without a fan. Ventiva’s ICE9 thermal management system combines the ICE technology with a software-controlled power supply to achieve the 40W thermal envelope.

Ventiva anuncia solução de resfriamento sem fan para notebooks com até 40W de TDP
A fabricante de soluções de resfriamento para dispositivos compactos Ventiva anunciou que sua tecnologia ICE9 em breve alcançará mais notebooks. O recurso permite a dissipação de calor eficaz de eletrônicos sem a necessidade de fans, o que torna os dispositivos mais silenciosos e permite designs mais finos.

California-based thermal solutions provider Ventiva launches ICE9 thermal management suite that can cool laptops that operate at up to 40W TDP (Thermal Design Power). This will enable thinner, faster and utterly silent computing devices to function without compromising traditional, fan-based cooling systems. This allows the ICE9 solution to cool the powerful CPUs required for the next generation of feature-rich, AI-enabled, high-performance laptops.

There are water-cooled computers, and then Ventiva’s solid-state Ionic Cooling Engine (ICE) device. This impossible PC fan essentially harnesses the power of a plasma field to generate movement of air particles, thus delivering a potent “solid-state” cooling force suitable for up to 30-Watts Thermal Design Power (TDP) systems.

Most laptop computers have fans to help dissipate heat generated by the CPU and other hardware. But fans generate noise, have a habit of getting clogged with dust, and like most moving parts, an sometimes break down.

Ventiva’s solid-state ICE cooling system utilizes ionic propulsion to generate airflow, resulting in near-silent operation with no moving parts. Although laptops with the fancy new cooling system have already been teased to be unveiled at CES 2025, there are a few notable disadvantages that must be kept in mind.

One of the biggest annoyances when it comes to laptops is how hot they can get, and when they get hot, they can thermally throttle and really diminish your experience. Plus, they can get really, really noisy. Arm-based laptops are significantly better when it comes to this thanks to their lower power draw, but what if there was a best of both worlds, where a laptop could be quiet and efficiently cooled? That’s what Ventiva’s new cooling tech, dubbed ICE9, promises to deliver.

Ventiva est le nom d’une société qui développe et commercialise une nouvelle solution de refroidissement pour ordinateurs portables sans avoir recours à une ventilation mécanique classique. Baptisée Ionic Cooling Engine ou ICE, cette technologie permet de générer un flux d’air sans aucune pièce mobile.

Ventiva will unveil its innovative solid-state cooling system, a laptop fan that generates airflow using ionized air molecules, at CES 2025.

Ventiva’s cutting-edge system uses ionized air to create airflow, replacing traditional fans in laptops.

Ventiva, a tech startup, has introduced a new type of cooling technology known as the Ionic Cooling Engine (ICE). This solid-state cooling solution promises to revolutionize the cooling in electronic devices by eliminating the need for traditional fans, keeping it quieter and more efficient at the same time.

This Ventiva solid-state cooling system is expected to make its debut at CES 2025 from the thermal management solutions brand as a technology that could revolutionize the industry. The technology is characterized by its solid-state profile that utilizes ionized air molecules to generate airflow instead of traditional fans. This is reported to work in an ultra-quiet manner that will also fit into a wide range of devices, which responds to the increasingly limited amount of space inside laptops, tablets and more.

Dell devrait présenter au CES un nouveau système de refroidissement sans ventilateur pour ses PC portables. Contrairement au AirJet de Frore System, le système ne fait pas vibrer l’air, mais l’ionise pour le déplacer.

Oto rozwiązanie chłodzące, które nie generuje żadnych wibracji ani hałasu. Firma Ventiva stworzyła silnik chłodzenia jonowego, który nie tylko ma zapewniać podobną wydajność do zwykłego wentylatora, ale także być wolny od największej bolączki tej technologii.

Zur Computex 2023 sorgte Frore mit einer revolutionären Methode zum Transport eines Luftvolumens für Aufmerksamkeit und bietet die AirJet getauften Module als Solide-State-Kühlung inzwischen in verschiedenen Varianten an.

La fin des ventilateurs bruyants et encombrants dans les ordinateurs portables : c’est globalement ce que promet Ventiva, une entreprise californienne avec son système de refroidissement baptisé « Ionic Cooling Engine » (ICE).

Los ordenadores portátiles han estado evolucionando con el paso de los años y hemos pasado de tener ordenadores que eran pesados, gruesos y con poca duración de batería a portátiles ultrafinos con batería que dura mucho tiempo. También hemos llegado a tener portátiles con refrigeración pasiva como los MacBook Air, aunque también hemos visto pérdidas de rendimiento debido a esto.

A major development in laptop cooling technology is set to debut at CES 2025. Ventiva, a leader in thermal management solutions, will unveil its innovative solid-state cooling system, which uses ionized air molecules to generate airflow, eliminating the need for traditional fans. This advancement offers quieter, slimmer laptops and addresses many limitations of conventional cooling systems. However, challenges such as static pressure management and ozone mitigation remain critical obstacles to overcome before this technology can achieve widespread adoption.

Tech enthusiast Dave2D has drawn the IT community’s attention to an intriguing up-and-coming laptop cooler company, Ventiva. Through its Ionic Cooling Engine (ICE) solid-state cooling technology, Ventiva could be set to revolutionize laptop cooling, and early testing results shared by Dave2D seem extremely promising. Like other solid-state coolers (which are a pre-existing technology but incredibly limited in application for reasons soon to become clear), Ventiva uses ionic thrusters to repel heat/push “air” without the use of a fan’s moving parts with its ICE solid-state cooling technology.

A company called Ventiva has created a new type of part for laptop, tablet, and other mobile computing devices that aims to replace the noisy fans that so many computers rely on these days to keep the high performance processors from overheating. Ventiva’s ionic cooling engine is a tiny metal stick about the size of a matchstick that ionizes molecules in order to start air moving in a specific direction. There are 2mm and 5mm tall versions that can vary in length depending on where a manufacturer might place them within a computing system.

THE CIRCUIT
Episode 58: Discussion with Ventiva CEO, Carl Schlachte on Thermals/Cooling
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