Eli5: Why do smartphones not need cooling fans like other computers do?

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Everybody always talks about the massive computing power of smartphones (movies love the moon mission comparison) but still my phone rarely gets hot. (Only when I use it while charging sometimes)

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They use a lower power cpu type called ARM which also saves on battery. Arm chips have improved rapidly due to the popularity of phones, and are feasible as a replacement for x86 (“typical” computer cpu’s)

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