New Chip Promises Longer Battery Life

Roland Piquepaille writes "It always happens when you need it the most: the battery of your cellphone just died. But now, researchers of the University of Rochester have developed a wireless chip that needs ten times less power than current designs. The new chip relies on a technology named injection locked frequency divider (ILFD) which dramatically reduces the time needed to check for transmission frequencies which are performed several billion times per second by your current phone. The new chip uses five transistors and can perform divisions by 3 instead of only 2 by previous circuits, allowing a perfect communication between two phones communicating at 2.0001 and 2.0002 gigahertz respectively."

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Battery power

[cr@ckwhore]

"It always happens when you need it the most: the battery of you cellphone just died. But now, researchers of the University of Rochester have developed a wireless chip that needs ten times less power..."

Ok, but that still doesn't solve the "I need my phone now but I was too lazy to charge it last night" problem. So what, this chip can run from a dead battery? No.

It really doesn't matter how much power the phone uses... the fact is that it still uses power. Consuming power from a limited source means that it will reach a point when the battery is depleted, except now it just takes 10 days longer than before.

Murphy says, you will still be inconvenienced.