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Awesome Power Saver Demonstration in Chien's Keynote

posted by Jason Swihart on April 02, 2008

IMG_0881.jpgAmong a number of very cool items on the subject of “Digital Transformation,” in his keynote today, Andrew A. Chien, Vice President, Corporate Technology Group, hosted an awesome demonstration showing a 30-35% system power consumption savings.

By synchronization system events at the hardware level--as opposed to allowing asynchronous calls for power--baseline system power consumption can be reduced dramatically. The demonstration showed that, under normal conditions, the system can't really ever “go to sleep” resulting in a steady level of power consumption. If, however, system events are syncghronized the system only needs to wake up once in a while.

Very cool to see such dramatic power drops in practice and to hear that a 50% reductions are the goal for 2010.

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