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Apple held off on adding vapor chamber coolers to its devices for unknown reasons, but the company finally made the transition when it announced the iPhone 17 Pro and iPhone 17 Pro Max. Unfortunately, the 11-inch and 13-inch M5 iPad Pro did not get the same treatment, but according to the latest report, their immediate successor, the M6 iPad Pro, will feature a vapor chamber cooler. This addition will allow for better heat dissipation while giving more thermal headroom for the Apple Silicon to perform slightly better.
As chipsets become more and more powerful, Apple will not want to keep its M6 iPad Pro power-limited
On the latest ‘Power On’ newsletter from Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman, we learn that the Cupertino firm apparently has intentions to add a vapor chamber to the M6 iPad Pro. Given that the iPhone 17 Pro and iPhone 17 Pro Max were the first devices to get this upgrade, it was only a matter of time before a vapor chamber branched out to other products. On the current M5 iPad Pro, Apple has probably employed a graphene sheet to transfer heat, with the aluminum chassis acting as a heatsink.
Sadly, this method of transferring heat away from the M5 is inefficient and prevents the chipset from operating at its peak performance, which is likely one of the reasons the base model comes with a 9-core CPU and 10-core GPU instead of a 10-core CPU and 10-core GPU configuration on the M5 MacBook Pro. With the vapor chamber, the M6 iPad Pro might not just be able to feature increased CPU cores, but also exhibit better sustained performance when running taxing workloads such as AAA games.
In such a slim chassis, the Apple Silicon was always going to be thermally constrained, making a vapor chamber a necessity rather than an extra. Since Apple takes immense pride in marketing its current iPad Pro models as the slimmest and most powerful computing devices in history, it remains to be seen if this change will force the company to add a few millimeters of thickness to the M6 iPad Pro. Since nothing is confirmed at this stage, we recommend readers treat these details with a pinch of salt, and we will return with more updates.
News Source: Bloomberg
About the author: Omar Sohail is a reporter and analyst for Wccftech's mobile section, specializing in the technology and business of the mobile industry. His expertise lies in the intricate hardware supply chain, covering developments in semiconductor manufacturing, chip lithography, and camera sensor technology.
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