“P.A. Semi is working on a low-power Power chip. The Santa Clara, Calif.-based start-up this week is set to unveil its plans for a microprocessor based around the Power architecture–the same architecture behind chips in IBM servers and current Macs–that consumes only a fraction of the energy of existing chips,” Michael Kanellos reports for CNET News. “The company’s first so-called PWRficient chip will feature two processing cores, run at 2GHz and consume on average about 5 watts, thanks to an emphasis on integration and circuit design. At a maximum, it will consume 25 watts, far less than the single-core Power chips that can hit 90 watts found on the market today.”
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“At the Fall Processor Forum here this week, P.A. Semi will announce how it has designed a high-performance chip it claims will consume as much as 10 times less power than today’s comparable products. But because it takes an average of four years to design and produce a new chip, P.A. Semi said its processors won’t hit the market until 2007,” May Wong reports for The Associated Press.
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