Topic

Smartphone thermal design

Cooling hardware and chip packaging used to move heat out of phones, including vapor chambers, thermal interface materials and the placement of memory relative to the processor die.

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A stuck aperture on the iPhone 18 Pro costs a whole camera assembly

iFixit says a stuck aperture on the iPhone 18 Pro likely takes a new main camera assembly, and it points at the phone's improved cooling to explain the display frames that cracked on three of the four units it opened.

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