Power-Light Power Chips · Slashdot Mirror

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on Monday October 24, 2005 @08:02AM 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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Re:Embedded market by supabeast! · 2005-10-24 08:14 · Score: 5, Insightful

From the article:

"The PWRficient actually won't come out for two years, so it's hard to predict exactly how it will stack up against the competition."

In two years a 2 GHZ dual core will probably be a good option for a high-end embedded CPU.