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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. 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

  2. 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"
  3. 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.

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

    GLADos in a potato

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

    --

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

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

    Fixed.

  7. 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."
  8. 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 :)