[Info-vax] Chinese Alpha?

[Michael Unger]

On 2012-04-30 20:20, "John Wallace" wrote:

> 21064 started life at around 150W. Xeons have been up there too,
> although currently they're a little bit less. Then you need to add all
> the Northbridge/Southbridge or similar gubbins traditionally
> associated with an x86 CPU.

"Green IT" (i.e., achieving significant savings on the electric power
bill) is a rather recent trend in the hardware business ...

There have been and are of course "mobile editions" of the x86
architecture (for notebooks, e.g.) running at a very low CPU core
voltage. And as has already been mentioned there are extremely low power
designs like ARM with a reasonable computing power. I don't know what
GPS chipsets (tracking devices, running several days from a single or
two AA cells) are using though.

Michael

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