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Intel plans to reduce PC power use
CHIPMAKER Intel has been discussing its plans to cut down power use by PCs and its vision of doing that on one billion machines.
The firm was speaking to V3.co.uk, our cousins across the office, when it made the statements and explained that with the number of PCs increasing it's up to it to cut their electricity bills and save the planet.
"The reason the energy used is half is Moore's Law - you saw a big fall in power consumption when we moved to the new microarchitecture - and smaller form factors," said Lorie Wigle, GM of Intel's eco-tech office, as he explained that Intel plans to cut PC energy consumption from around 320 terawatts an hour to just 151.
"Smaller devices are more power optimised if they are built around a battery. But the biggest thing people can do to save power is use power management software, particularly within the enterprise." µ
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Intel should of thought about this years ago! They don't really care as long as people keep buying their crap. If Intel ever really cared they would have never sold chips like the P4 and 150W xeons, etc, or designed the BTX case just to keep selling their crap.
Now what do they want us to do, give them a pat on the back?
I can hardly wait, my next PC will consume only 151 terawatts an hour instead of 320!!!!!
Guys at Intel have a serious sense of humor, saying so...
@John
Probably it's the increasing power consumption of discrete graphics cards.
If power usage is dropping then why are psu requirements continuing to rise? the average pc used to get by on a 300w psu.