Intel Gets Serious With Solar-powered CPU Tech

Posted by samzenpus on Sunday February 19, 2012 @01:05PM from the time-in-the-sun dept.

angry tapir writes "Intel's experimental solar-powered processor may have started off as a fun project, but the chip maker is now looking to extend the technology to hardware such as graphics processors, memory and floating point units. Intel last year showed the low-power processor — charged only by the light from a reading lamp — running Windows and Linux PCs. Intel is expected to share further details about the processor, which is code-named Claremont, at the International Solid-State Circuits Conference in San Francisco. The company is also expected to reveal information about efforts to integrate wireless capabilities into Atom chips for mobile devices."

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Re:Actually Solar is not the quest here folks... by Sarten-X · 2012-02-19 13:18 · Score: 0, Troll

But I'm an American! If I'm not told that this will be a momentous breakthrough to give me a battery-free wireless laptop that spews rainbows and puppies and will cost less than a cheeseburger when it's released next year, why should I care about it?

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