Cool: Faster Laptop Fan Speed, Same Power Consumption and Noise

A hot topic, particularly in light of the recent issues with NVIDIA laptop GPUs, is cooling notebooks.

Intel has developed a way to double the air flow generated by notebook cooling fans while using no more power and creating no more noise. Rather than making a big announcement, Intel was demoing a prototype at a booth at the Intel Developer Forum (IDF).

Shown side-by-side with a standard fan, a test using a styrofoam ball showed notably faster speed. Bradley Urban, an engineer from Intel's thermal technology development unit, said "It's a 2x comparison," adding that "As soon as we can get it into production, we will. Maybe two years."

Ah, darn. A speedy fan, but not a speedy intro.