In my blog about the most common pitfalls in analyzing application power consumption (http://software.intel.com/en-us/forums/showthread.php?t=106174&o=a&s=lr) I talked about potential issues that could drive power consumption to higher amounts. C-states are states when the CPU has reduced or turned off selected functions. Different processors support different numbers of C-states in which various parts of the CPU are [...] Read more >

Introduction There are many blogs and articles on the internet that discuss analyzing an application to figure out ways to reduce power consumption. Finding where an application consumes power can be very challenging, especially with developers who are new to power optimization. In this blog I am going to talk about how to quickly determine, [...] Read more >