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Our Blogs The BeerFiles Intel tries to reconcile global warming and Moore's Law | Intel tries to reconcile global warming and Moore's Law |
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| by Stan Beer | |
| Sunday, 08 June 2008 | |
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Page 2 of 3 At the desktop, however, the issue becomes somewhat
murkier. Once again, Intel correctly maintains that there are practical
ways all of us desktop users can reduce our power consumption.Featured Whitepaper
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According to Intel, the average desktop PC wastes nearly half the power it pulls from the wall as heat. Once again, Intel seems to have an answer for this. There is a discernable move to replace bulky power hungry desktops with their multiple fans and monstrous hard drives to much leaner and power efficient notebooks. Some of these even have solid state drives and no moving parts. According to Intel, the move toward multi-core processors, which enables greater processing throughput without having to crank up clock speeds and power consumption is part of the solution. In the past, the so-called Wintel alliance specialised in forcing consumers to buy new computers every two or three years. Microsoft and other software vendors would release new software that needed more powerful processors, more memory and bigger hard disks. Intel and other hardware vendors of course gladly obliged by bringing new more power hungry products to market. Then in an unending vicious cycle the software vendors led by Microsoft embarked on the next grand project to make our existing hardware worthless. So should Intel and Microsoft be hung, drawn and quartered for their strategy? Please read on to page 3 |
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