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Intel's Wine-Powered Microprocessor

Posted by samzenpus on from the it-does-go-well-with-the-fish dept.

angry tapir writes "In a new twist on strange brew, an Intel engineer has showed off a project using wine to power a microprocessor. The engineer poured red wine into a glass containing circuitry on two metal boards during a keynote by Genevieve Bell, Intel fellow, at the Intel Developer Forum in San Francisco. Once the red wine hit the metal, the microprocessor on a circuit board powered up. The low-power microprocessor then ran a graphics program on a computer with an e-ink display."

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  1. Genevieve Bell? Mike Bell? by dtmos · · Score: 3, Funny

    The engineer poured red wine into a glass containing circuitry on two metal boards during a keynote by Genevieve Bell, Intel fellow, at the Intel Developer Forum in San Francisco.

    [. . .]

    Low power doesn't mean low performance, with Intel now thinking about microwatts, not milliwatts, said Mike Bell, vice president and general manager of the New Devices group, during an appearance at the keynote.

    [. . .]

    Future computing devices will be able to understand human behavior through data gathered by embedded sensors and other wearable technology, Bell said. Projects are also underway at Intel labs to bring a more "human element" to mobility, she said.

    What a poorly edited article. One never knows which Bell -- Genevieve or Mike -- is speaking.

  2. wine? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    but wine is not an emulator! http://www.winehq.org/

    oh, the other kind of wine

    1. Re:wine? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Funny

      WINE = Wine Is Not Electricity

  3. Cheer up, meatbags by carlhirsch · · Score: 5, Funny

    And that's the story of how Bender's great-grandpappy was born.

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    . We've got computers, we're tapping phone lines, you know that ain't allowed - Talking Heads, "Life During Wartime"
  4. What next ? by eulernet · · Score: 4, Funny

    Wine is the first step, but why don't we use blood to power microprocessors ?

    Everybody can easily extract blood, and a processor named Vampire would be so cool.

  5. Re:Could it also run on urine? by Smallpond · · Score: 3, Funny

    Plus we get to name the support site Urine Trouble.

  6. next up by wbr1 · · Score: 4, Funny

    GLADos in a potato

    --
    Silence is a state of mime.
  7. In vino verilog. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

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  8. Re:Genevieve Bell? Mike Bell? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    After all of the wine mysteriously disappeared, Mike became Genevieve.

    Fixed.

  9. Re:AMD responds with beer CPU. Seriously, though . by Hognoxious · · Score: 5, Funny

    There was never a time when CPU companies were in a race to create processors that sucked up and wasted through heat dissipation as much electrical power as possible.

    I guess you never owned a Pentium 4.

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    Confucius say, "Find worm in apple - bad. Find half a worm - worse."
  10. Re:this just in by maestroX · · Score: 4, Funny

    AC is of course correct - the point was that they made the equivalent of a potato clock [wikihow.com], but on a computer.

    Incorrect, eloctrolysis uses direct current (DC) by definition :)