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Intel formally introduces Claremont
CHIPMAKER Intel has named its solar powered processor 'Claremont', and showed it off at IDF running Linux and Quake.
We saw the experimental system on the first day of the Intel Developer Forum where a postage stamp sized solar panel was powering a chip capable of running Windows. The chip is actually an old Pentium processor and is operating with a five times improvement in energy efficiency.
The CPU can run fast when needed and as you can see in the video was running a demo of Quake. However, it is capable of consuming less than 10mW of power.
Intel CTO Justin Rattner said, "We've seen really, I think, an outstanding example of the work towards increasing the energy efficiency on the processing side." µ
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Intel is a very arrogant and unhelpul company trying to keep all their latest technologies to their chest and not offering them to anyone except those for whom money is no object. See any of their crippled celerons and atoms. The atom cannot see more than 2gb memory and does not have culv or power saving manufacturing. Their latest technologies like vpro and virtualization or even low power like culv is not for everyone. If they want they can produce low power silicon they can do so now by using silicon on insulator etc like amd but it will increase their production costs so it is a definite No. They could have bought Nvidia and given us better integrated graphics but till we are buying their kit , they do not need to improve. Thanks for the competition which they hate and tried to kill, we will still be in pentium 4 era thanks to them. Support ARM /AMD if you want to come out of the stone age.
I hate when people say 'five ex', the x stands for 'times' idiots.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multiplication_sign
Fine, but is the SATA interface working? Mind you the entire 6-series (H67, Z68 etc.) is not working correctly.
LOL
that is no longer receiving updates from The Inquirer in my news feed? I have about 7 of them set up and theinquirer.net is the only one that quit working.
Quite annoying.
I laugh when ARM Plc try to undermine Intel effort on Atom-Low_Power. That's what happened during AMD Opteron. AMD let's its guard loose.
Intel is a HUGE company both in terms of product output, Employee, R&D and CapEx. If you laugh at Intel, be prepared to "wake" 24-hours around on guard! Or it would bite you in the ass!
It so surprising that that SoC could run like calculators in terms of power consumption.
Remember Atom have many logic that doesn't even present in ARM's CPU. Intel branch prediction, speculation execution, speculative caching, register shadowing, hardware extension TLB, Snoop-chache, Hardware VM task-switch and many more.
This is needed as Intel S/W habitat is demanding those function. As ARM's try to complicate its micro-architecture, it's stumbled upon what Intel found out first, putting more logic inside, and you'll see increased power consumption!
So, when Intel find it difficulties to "reducing power", i could understand why. Intel have more "inner logic" than its competitor. Problem is you can't just eliminate many of those logic as it's there to helping the x86 programmer in the first place!
But again, being no: 1 of silicon producers, meaning it has more resource for more intensive R&D. That's why you could see, how "advanced" Intel research could be.
The bad thing for Intel is: "IT PERFORM BEST, WHEN IT FEELS THREATENED!!!". You could see it from the beginning.
Remember AMD 486 that trumps Intel clock by clock? How about when DEC Alpha Trumps even Intel 960 RISC_CPU series? And then there's famous "catching-up" to Opteron level. The last one is "catching-up" to ARM's (in power consumption).
Without competition, well... anybody remember the Pentium-"Winter_Heater"? Nice one to have, if you life in a four seasons country!
So.. i hope AMD still keeping Intel busy. Buldozer is good, Intel would have to released ivy-bridge sooner now, rather than keeping it in its chest.
Also i hope ARM's could keep Intel on edge. It's nice to see Intel keeps it's R&D full of staff & loaded with funds.
In the end, i reap the benefit of lower power & price-point H/W. Competitions is good!!!