Deep-tech giant YPlasma is preparing to announce a new solid-state cooling solution for laptops at CES 2026. According to a blog post the company published, the new cooler design can cool laptop devices at an "ultra-quiet" 17 dBA using the world's first DBD plasma actuators for consumer electronics. The company also announced that this same cooling design will be used to address the cooling needs of power-hungry AI-focused servers.
This new cooler design uses "Dielectric Barrier Discharge plasma actuators" to generate airflow without any moving components. According to YPlasma's literature review of the technology: "Wind is generated by ionizing a thin layer of ambient gas adjacent to a dielectric surface..." YPlasma's coolers are taking advantage of corona discharge, an electrohydrodynamic phenomenon, to generate wind using electricity.
