There will be many models of energy saving chips

Intel has pledged to continue reducing the size and energy consumption of mobile chips in the coming year and the next, to "pave the way" for designing smaller PC models and consuming less power. more power.

The announcement was made on March 15 at CeBIT, Hanover, Germany by vice president and general manager of Europe, Middle East and Africa. Since last year, Intel has reduced its chip size by 75% and reduced its power consumption by 50%.

According to him, Christian Morales, Intel expects to make more significant improvements in 2008, such as the introduction of chips that consume only 10% of the energy compared to the 2006 "predecessors" of them, and the size will be about 85% smaller.

" Our ultimate goal is to have a separate system on each chip, and that will really be a total integrated solution ," Morales said.

Much of the significant improvement in energy consumption comes from the processing technology that Intel uses to produce chips. Since early 2006, most Intel processors are manufactured on 90-nm lines. Then the first 65-nm chips appeared at the end of 2006; and next will be 45-nm chip models.

Advances in processing technology allow manufacturers to create smaller chips, run faster, consume less energy, and may be cheaper. In addition, reducing chip size allows for more chip mounting on a silicon wafer model, and thus reduces production costs.

Along with improvements in chip design and processing technology, Intel has also promoted upgrading of energy management technologies, especially Turbo Memory technology, to reduce overall energy consumption. Turbo Memory uses flash memory chips (still retains memory when power is lost) to reduce the number of times a computer accesses the hard drive, which reduces power consumption and increases performance.