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Intel launches Atom power, devices due in June
News The new chips, described by the company as entirely Core 2 Duo-compatible but with a tenth of the power requirements, will first reach the market in a fleet of partner mobile internet devices (MIDs) in late May or early June.
[April 2, 2008, 10:41]
Designing Power-Friendly Devices
White Papers This paper focuses on a generally-observed industry problem, where the behavior of devices causes a significant increase to system power. Unfortunately, today's systems are not optimized for situations where devices may generate power-unfriendly...
[September 16, 2009, 1:22]
'Supercomputer-on-a-chip' to power consumer devices
News IBM, Sony Computer Entertainment and Toshiba are planning to create new microchips that will put the power of a supercomputer into consumer devices, while enabling all kinds of gadgets to connect to each other via high-speed Internet connections.
[March 12, 2001, 15:48]
A Personal-Area Network of Low-Power Wireless Interfacing Devices for Handhelds: System & Hardware Design
White Papers To meet this challenge, this paper presents the system and hardware design for a Bluetooth-based personal-area network (PAN) of low-power wireless interfacing devices. Handhelds, such as smart-phones and Pocket PCs, have the potential to become the...
[July 29, 2007, 23:12]
Self-Learning Hard Disk Power Management for Mobile Devices
White Papers A multitude of different hard disk power management algorithms exists - applied to real systems or proposed in the literature. These algorithms try to predict the length of each idle interval at runtime and decide whether the disk should be...
[August 30, 2007, 1:00]
Managing the Mobile Workforce: Deploying Solutions Globally and Harnessing the Power of Context-Aware Mobile Devices
White Papers In today's environment, however, many processes on the ground are still static, paper-based and nothing like as efficient as they could be - since they are unable to leverage the power of the information locked in ATI applications and systems.
[November 26, 2009, 23:00]
Tape and Disk Costs - What It Really Costs to Power the Devices
White Papers The introduction of lower cost drives, such as Serial ATA (SATA) drives, has many people convinced that disk is now as inexpensive as tape. Disk prices are dropping every year, as drives get larger in capacity, but tape vendors continue to increase...
[March 29, 2008, 0:01]
Cisco should lead the march towards interoperability rather than away
Talkback It is interesting and saddening that Cisco has chosen to go proprietary for powering its "high" power devices, especially at a time, when many PoE vendors who had gone proprietary in their quest for higher power, are now returning back to the IEEE...
[February 12, 2008, 12:14]
ZigBee product flood defies sceptics
News ZigBee chips are now widely available, including low-power devices designed for long-term use. The 802.15.4 standard gives low power consumption needed for long-lived 'fit-and-forget' battery devices, but that still leaves users with the choice "to...
[September 14, 2005, 14:15]
A Network Connectivity Power-Saving Mechanism for Mobile Devices in DLNA Home Networks
White Papers Although their computing, storage and networking capabilities have evolved significantly, these devices remain power-constrained and, therefore, need to actively take measures to minimize their power consumption.
[March 29, 2008, 0:01]
ARM launches low-power multimedia chip
News UK chipmaker ARM launched the Cortex A8 processor on Tuesday, claiming that its high performance and low power requirements would "revolutionise consumer and low-power mobile devices". Texas Instruments (TI) also announced that it was the first...
[October 5, 2005, 16:55]
Alcohol gives new life to thirsty portables
News Radical new battery technology promises much more power for portable devices, according to NEC and Sony. The company predicts this could give mobile phones and laptops many weeks of operation between recharging, and expects to be in production...
[September 3, 2001, 17:14]
Next-gen Palms promise double battery life
News Semiconductor makers showed off the next-generation chips that will power future Palm devices this week at the PalmSource developer conference in London, demonstrating high-powered applications such as video encoding and high-quality sound.
[May 22, 2002, 12:16]
Fuel-cell breakthrough could boost portable power
News Scientists at the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO) are working to develop micro fuel cells to power portable electronic devices and have made an important breakthrough that may make the technology cheaper to own...
[December 11, 2003, 9:10]
Power outlets may feed home networking
News Technology that allows consumers to connect computers and other electronic devices through existing power outlets has become a reality. For example, consumers can soon plug a computer filled with MP3 music into a regular electrical outlet in the...
[June 26, 2001, 11:55]
On Time-Out Driven Power Management Policies in Wireless Networks
White Papers Switching the devices to low-power states in prolonged period of inactivity is a widely used technique to conserve energy for battery-powered wireless devices. This paper presents a mathematical abstraction of time-out driven power management...
[August 23, 2007, 1:00]
Bluetooth Wireless Networking
White Papers Class 1 devices are the most powerful, as they can have up to 100 mW of power, with a regular antenna giving them a range of around 130 - 330 feet. The class 2 devices are lower power, offering up to 2.5 mW of power.
[June 14, 2006, 0:00]
Transmeta to push Linux devices in China
News Transmeta, a manufacturer of low-power, Intel-compatible chips, has signed up Chinese computer maker Chinese 2000 Holdings to develop and market low-cost Linux-based devices such as notebooks, PCs and set-top boxes.
[June 13, 2003, 13:32]
Transmeta unveils mobile Linux
News Transmeta, which sells low-power, Intel-compatible processors called Crusoe, previously referred to Midori as Mobile Linux. Additions include support for power management hardware that reduces electricity consumption and support for the power...
[March 14, 2001, 7:22]
An end to recharging for mobile phones
News Casio, Siemens and other manufacturers of phones and PDAs are already building prototype devices that use the new power cells, developed at the Department for Energy Technology at the Fraunhofer-Institute -- Germany's answer to MIT.
[April 18, 2001, 14:25]
