I'm all for AMD but shouldn't AMD be worrying about how to make cooler transistors and circuits instead?

All this heatpipe and vapor chamber stuff should be Thermaltake's or Coolermaster's problem, not AMD's.

Water has this thing called "surface tension". That means it likes to stick to other things. The more surface area you give it on those other things, the more water you'll get to stick to them.

That's all the wick is: turn the material into a powder or a mesh or whatever, or even just roughen its surface, and it has a huge amount more surface area than if it were a single smooth block.

You feeling okay Charlie? Not one nvidia bashing sentence in the entire article?

You should dig more, maybe they are using inferior wicking material in their heatpipes. And when they have the audactity to try and improve it, you can really lay into them.