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Power-Light Power Chips

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on from the things-that-are-hot-and-cool dept.

DD writes to tell us ZDNet is running a story about a new Santa Clara, CA based startup that is boasting a new line of low-power, Power chips, the same architecture found in current day Macs and IBM servers. From the article: "The company's first so-called PWRficient chip will feature two processing cores, run at 2GHz and consume on average about 5 watts, thanks to an emphasis on integration and circuit design. At a maximum, it will consume 25 watts, far less than the single-core Power chips that can hit 90 watts found on the market today."

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  1. I feel a great disturbance in the Force by katana · · Score: 5, Funny

    As if millions of Apple customers suddenly cried out, and were silenced.

    1. Re:I feel a great disturbance in the Force by Salandarin · · Score: 2, Funny

      "As if millions of Apple customers suddenly cried out, and were silenced."

      I think you mean "As if dozens of Apple customers..."

      *hides*

  2. finally by kevin.fowler · · Score: 5, Funny

    What a relief. Implement this en masse and a dormitory full of idling computers running aim won't use as much energy as a small country anymore.

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    Bury me in mashed potatoes.
  3. G5 Powerbooks! by ejoe_mac · · Score: 2, Funny

    Come on, please let this be true!

  4. Vaporously Delicious by brogdon · · Score: 4, Funny

    "The company's first so-called PWRficient chip will feature two processing cores, run at 2GHz and consume on average about 5 watts, thanks to an emphasis on integration and circuit design. At a maximum, it will consume 25 watts, far less than the single-core Power chips that can hit 90 watts found on the market today."

    Also, thanks to our patented Vapor-based architecture, we've been able to build our level-2 RAM cache out of a giant cloud of gaseous water! And we've licensed our chips to be in the Phantom Game Console! And they'll even run Duke Nukem Forever! As we speak the SCO group is printing out some infringing Linux code with them to use as evidence in an actual trial!

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  5. What a business plan!!! by IGoChopYourDollars · · Score: 5, Funny

    1) design a low-power-consumption high-performance PowerPC chip that would be ideal for Apple to use
    2) keep the development so secret that spouses are kept in the dark
    3) launch the product after Apple has already abandoned PowerPC
    4) ???
    5) PROFIT!

  6. P-p-p-power by InvisibleSoul · · Score: 2, Funny

    Maybe this new Power chip can power the P-P-P-Powerbook...

    http://www.p-p-p-powerbook.com/

  7. Did anyone else read that as poker chips? by jonfelder · · Score: 2, Funny

    I kept read that as poker chips, and couldn't figure out for the life of me what technology was in IBM servers that would be utilized in a poker chip.

  8. Re:Apple by Jozer99 · · Score: 2, Funny

    2008? By then, we will have 1.8 GHz powerbooks! The world we live in today!