Intel computer Processor Runs On Solar-Power

Power From a Cell the size of a Postage Stamp

Intel (NASDAQ: INTC) showed off its newest technology, a solar-powered processor, at the annual developer conference in San Francisco.

Not solely was the creation of a solar-powered processor achieved, but the chip might ran on little or no over the power needed to point out on its transistors.

The newly created chip is regarding the size of a postage stamp, but the chip’s vogue is based on a Pentium processor that is over a decade recent.

They selected to base the new chip off an recent chip vogue as a results of the engineering challenge was therefore troublesome. the look of the recent chip was plenty of simpler than today’s chips.

Justin Rattner, Intel’s chief technology officer, said the experimental processor was 5 times further energy-efficient than today's processors. but he stressed that it's nowhere near ready to hit the market.

At the conference Intel demonstrated the computer’s solar-powered CPU through the employment of two very little overhead reading lamps. However, solely the processor was solar powered, the rest of the computer parts used commonplace electricity.

The point to all or any or any of this analysis is that it's potential to induce extreme power savings.

"People lately will kill for an extra fifteen or twenty minutes of battery life, and here you're saying you will improve battery life by a component of 5 or 10," Rattner said in an interview.