Source : DailytechEngineers at the University of Michigan developed a processor whose consumption is particularly low.
The Phoenix, consumes only 30 PicoWatts in sleep mode, and 10 times less than ATOM under operation using a voltage of only 0,5V, a new record.
To reach at this result, they reduced the size of the power gates controlling the passage of the electrons and succeeded with better controlling the inevitable leakages which usually make it necessary to increase the voltage.
We do not know if these technologies will be usable in the production of CPUs for computers, but this is not the priority of the researchers who want to focus on medical implants or other monitoring systems which could, with tiny batteries, have a very long lifetime.
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