There are many applications that Vapor Chambers are used for. The main aspects of applications where vapor chambers are advantageous are high power and density. With high power density, the heat source is small but heat generation is large, so vapor chambers can more easily transport the heat to a larger area. A heat pipe solution would require multiple pipes, which may be difficult to integrate within the footprint of the heat source. With high power applications, the vapor chambers must dissipate large wattage; a vapor chamber spreads the heat to a large area efficiently with similar temperatures of the chamber surface. This allows more efficient use of the final heat exchanger, since hot spots are minimized. Heat pipes can also spread the heat, but unless many are ganged together, the hot spots may still persist.