Could "Computational Sprinting" Speed Up Smart Phones without Burning Them Out?
Wednesday, February 29, 2012 - 07:30
in Mathematics & Economics
The demands placed on smart phones by marathon sessions of texting, streaming video and surfing the Web require that they have blazing-fast processors while, at the same time, be able to disburse the heat these processors generate. A team of engineers is proposing something of a counterintuitive model to designing smart phones in the future--one that has processors alternately powering up and then cooling down, more like sprinters than long-distance runners . [More]
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