During Intel's keynote address at Intel Developer Forum in San Francisco this past thursday, company Chief Technology Officer, Justin Rattner, revealed a low powered cpu capable of running solely off solar energy. The tiny processor, code named Claremont, draws a mere 10 milliwatts of energy. As you probably already suspected, this near-threshold voltage processor won't be breaking any new benchmark records, but it can manage modest tasks as demonstrated at the keynote address during which the processor performed under Linux.
The processor was paired with equally new conceptual DDR3 memory from Micron. It is touted as being a resounding seven times more energy efficient than present DDR3 memory. Micron has dubbed it as “Hybrid Memory Cube”. Both technologies are experimental so neither are expected to debut in the marketplace any time soon, but they were a small showing of on going development in the arena of ultra energy efficient solar-powered computing. Intel has stressed it's goal of achieving 300 times greater energy efficiency than that of today over the course of the next 10 years.
Perhaps we citizens of SWFL could stand to gain a lot from solar computing living in the sunshine state. Would you ever consider going solar? Share your thoughts via comments below!
The processor was paired with equally new conceptual DDR3 memory from Micron. It is touted as being a resounding seven times more energy efficient than present DDR3 memory. Micron has dubbed it as “Hybrid Memory Cube”. Both technologies are experimental so neither are expected to debut in the marketplace any time soon, but they were a small showing of on going development in the arena of ultra energy efficient solar-powered computing. Intel has stressed it's goal of achieving 300 times greater energy efficiency than that of today over the course of the next 10 years.
Perhaps we citizens of SWFL could stand to gain a lot from solar computing living in the sunshine state. Would you ever consider going solar? Share your thoughts via comments below!
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