PC Silicon Is Evolving Way Faster Than Laptop Design. This Company Has a Cool Solution
As AI PCs demand more memory and power, the decades-old cooling fan is standing in the way. Ventiva’s radical fanless technology could be the answer to laptops' big design problem.
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TAIPEI—As the AI PC era becomes a runaway train, laptop makers face an old nemesis: heat generated by hot-running chips. New AI-focused processors pack ever more CPU, GPU, and NPU horsepower into increasingly thin machines. But the basic approach to cooling them hasn't changed much in decades: The humble spinning fan remains one of the biggest constraints on laptop design.Ventiva says it's time to rethink how we do things.At Computex 2026, I met with Carl Schlachte, the chairman, president, and CEO of Ventiva, a 62-person company based in Fremont, Calif., that has designed solid-state "ionic cooling" modules with no moving parts. The pitch isn't merely quieter laptops.
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