Intel Plans Smaller, More Energy-Efficient Chips

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PCWorld is reporing on Intel’s efforts to reduce the size and power consumption of its mobile processors. By 2008, Intel says it will have processors that are 85% smaller and consume a mere 10% of the power that processors in 2006 did.

Intel plans to further reduce the size and power consumption of its mobile microprocessors over the next year or so, paving the way for computers that are smaller and consume substantially less power, a company executive said Thursday. Since last year, Intel has reduced the size of its chips by 75 percent, while reducing power consumption by 50 percent.
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when will it ever end........I can see it now in 2020 I will be playing Crysis XI on a 60" projected screen using my mind to control the character all ran from my wrist watch which is also my time keeper, MP3 player, Cell phone, Calculator, main computer, laser shooter, cloaking device, rappel hook shooter, expresso machine, remote car starter, oh yeah I forgot it displays at 1080p and gets HD TV signal.
 
They will always go smaller and faster, thats the evolution of electronics.
 
hey, make the damn backlight suck less power. the cpu in my laptop is not the problem.
 
Martyr said:
hey, make the damn backlight suck less power. the cpu in my laptop is not the problem.
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Buy a laptop with a smaller screen and dont turn brightness up that much ;) lol
 
Ockie said:
They will always go smaller and faster, thats the evolution of electronics.
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There will be a point where they hit the physical constraints of the transistor size so I think they can only get so small due to the size of the element they are using to construct them. I read that somewhere which seems likely because atoms are only so big and we can't make transistors out of quarks...which of course is all speculation and holds no merit whatsoever...
 
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