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DARPA Targets Computing's Achilles Heel: Power

Posted by timothy on from the never-a-good-time-to-buy-a-computer dept.

coondoggie writes "The power required to increase computing performance, especially in embedded or sensor systems has become a serious constraint and is restricting the potential of future systems. Technologists from the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency are looking for an ambitious answer to the problem and will next month detail a new program it expects will develop power technologies that could bolster system power output from today's 1 GFLOPS/watt to 75 GFLOPS/watt."

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  1. they should talk to TI by Gravis+Zero · · Score: 3, Funny

    TI's line of MSP430 chips run using little solar cells. hell, they practically run on their own self-esteem. so scale that technology and bam, you got a super computer that runs on a couple AA batteries.

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