New chip design by Intel

**d000hg** · 5 May 2011, 08:18

If you accelerate you wouldn't be able to see what was going on as clearly.

**doodab** · 5 May 2011, 08:25

Originally posted by ThomasSoerensen View Post

Intel unveils new ‘3D’ chips - Telegraph

What do you think?

Is this the revolution that will make our smart phones able to hold a charge of a full day?

Or will it just accelerate the pr0n viewing?

It depends how the engineers decide to apply it. Intel generally makes quite heavyweight chips, and their smartphone products are still using the 45nm process AFAIK, so it could be a while before it turns up in that market.

**ThomasSoerensen** · 5 May 2011, 08:27

ok - so it will mostly benefit the geeks sitting in their mothers basement bedroom playing World of Warcraft?

**gingerjedi** · 5 May 2011, 08:31

BBC 'Click' did a piece on this, Intel have moved in that direction because that’s what the market wants, ARM and Quallcomm have been developing low power chips for the past 20 years.

Intel has some catching up to do.

**d000hg** · 5 May 2011, 09:46

Originally posted by zeitghost

Intel & Low Power.

That's something else that doesn't compute.

Apart from the chips they've been throwing out the last couple of years for laptops. Also the Atom is used in lots of mobile devices.

**russell** · 5 May 2011, 10:00

Why cant phones have solar and kinetic stuff to make them charge during the day?

**ThomasSoerensen** · 5 May 2011, 10:25

Originally posted by russell View Post

Why cant phones have solar and kinetic stuff to make them charge during the day?

It would not work for me anyway - I sit still all day long in an office - no sunlight - no movement

**ThomasSoerensen** · 5 May 2011, 10:39

Originally posted by zeitghost

Snot really low power though is it?

It's just low power compared with the rest of the electric fires they make.

Is power consumption so important?

For my personally it does not mean much, my desktop has a 1000W PSU but it only runs when I use it - and the laptops that are on 24/7 surely does not use that much when they do close to nothing.

**d000hg** · 5 May 2011, 10:52

Leave a laptop turned on doing nothing but without auto-standby turned on. How long does it last?
Leave your phone turned on, how long?

If you actually use a laptop without access to a power outlet, it is a big deal. My laptop can't survive use on a flight to LA for instance, maybe not even New York. It can just survive a train to London (3hrs) but trains these days often have power supplies which is wonderful.

By contrast I took my Kindle to Dubai for two weeks and read maybe 1-2 hours per day. When I returned home the battery was still at 75%.

New chip design by Intel