Apple iPhone 15 Pro overheats due to shoddy thermal design
By ForGeeks It has been reported that some phones in Apple’s iPhone 15 Pro series are overheating. People have been complaining about the Pro models overheating since their release. Now, analyst Ming-Chi Kuo has released a note concluding that it’s not the A17 Pro chipset that’s to blame for the overheating. And it’s the compromises Apple made in designing the thermal system that are to blame. The A17 Pro chipset is built on TSMC’s new advanced 3nm process, which is highly efficient, but apparently still generates more heat than the phone can dissipate.
Apple’s desire to make the new iPhone Pro models lighter is to blame. The company reportedly had to reduce the heat dissipation area, which, combined with titanium’s higher thermal conductivity, resulted in a poorer heat sink for the new chipset.
The Apple giant will likely address the overheating issue with a software update. But that won’t completely rid users of it. The only way to prevent the phone from overheating with a software update — is to limit its performance and thus power consumption so that it generates less heat.
The only way to prevent the phone from overheating with a software update — is to limit its performance and thus power consumption so that it generates less heat.
Kuo’s theory doesn’t quite explain why the problem only affected a fraction of phones. Could it be that different phones use different cooling element materials?”
Maybe it’s just that different phones use different cooling element materials.
