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Boosting Battery Life For RISC Processors

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the staying-unplugged-longer dept.

prostoalex writes "National Semiconductor and ARM Holdings will jointly develop the power management solution for RISC chips, that they estimate will improve battery life by 25-400%. The target date of the first sample product is Q2 2003." My old Tadpole laptop sure could have used this. I counted myself as lucky when I got a whole 45 minutes out of a battery.

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  1. TROLL TUESDAY #%@^!@ by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    Happy Troll Tuesday bitches I hate you all. Oh God why am I wasting my life on Slashdot smite me and everyone who reads this now please.

  2. You had a Tadpole Laptop ? by DJ+FirBee · · Score: -1, Troll

    Screw you! Elitist insensitive clod !!!!

    I never had one. My TiBooks battery lasts all day though. HA HA HA HA HA.

    Cowboy Neal .... sheesh what a loser.

    I look damn good in this uniform.

  3. Re:ultra low power consumption cpus by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    Boo hoo hoo, people don't like my Linux. Boo hoo.

    Seriously, who replies to a sig?