Mark Gurman from Bloomberg has reported that Apple’s forthcoming iPad will integrate the same vapor chamber cooling technology that Apple introduced with this year’s iPhone 17 Pro series. While vapor chamber cooling isn’t exactly a groundbreaking technology, Apple has now indicated its plan to expand this feature to its other product ranges over the next few years. For those unfamiliar, vapor chamber cooling is an ingenious method for thermal management.
It consists of a sealed chamber containing a minuscule amount of de-ionized water. When it is heated, the water vaporizes and disperses throughout the chamber, thereby evenly distributing heat away from the heat source. As the vapor reaches the cooler sections of the chamber, it condenses back into water, and this cycle repeats. Gurman notably mentions that the necessity for vapor chamber cooling has increased since Apple’s mobile chips “are nearly as powerful as those found in laptops.”
