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More Battery in the future

  • 05-03-2011 9:15pm
    #1
    Overheal
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 86,729 ✭✭✭✭


    From an unlikely source

    cpuvoltage1.jpg

    http://gizmodo.com/#!5776810/students-cpu-patent-could-save-your-mobile-batterys-ass-in-the-future

    Some smartass in a fancy university - harvard, whatever that is - realized he could save electronics a boatload of power by scaling the voltage up and down much more actively on integrated ciruits - think CPUs, RAM, etc.

    Judging from the graph it looks like depending on your stile of use this could see a pretty significant improvement in how your future hardware manages power, lasting many percentage points longer than it normally would.

    Somehow though I question whether this would be backwards compatible or rolled-out as a software patch. In general vendors dont support older hardware and they would be much more thrilled to say that new hardware lasts 3x as long as older hardware, instead of upgrading your old hardware and saying the new stuff only lasts 2x as long. for example.

    Still, this will likely become a welcome change for mobile technologies like phones, laptops and tablets.


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