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Comment Re:Duh (Score 1) 236

Ivy Bridge on 22nm consumes less power than Sandy Bridge on 32nm when idle, according to Anandtech. Only very slightly less, but still less. Those differences will obviously pale in comparison to the claimed 20x reductions from architecture changes in Haswell though.

If you look back through all of Intels die shrinks they pretty much always have lower idle power consumption than their predecessor, although you are right to point out the load power consumption is where the biggest difference is seen.

Comment Re:Duh (Score 1) 236

Intel is working on major improvements in idle power consumption though, because they know that is their weakest area at the moment.

For their next big architecture (Haswell), they are claiming a 20x reduction in idle power consumption compared to Sandy Bridge. Then another year after that Intel will have a die-shrink of Haswell (called Broadwell) using 14nm, which you would expect to reduce power consumption even further.

Those kind of improvements will bring them a lot closer to ARM in power consumption, while still having far superior performance.

Comment Re:A Wasted Vote... (Score 1) 409

In my view you'd be a fool to throw away a vote on a candidate who you don't agree with. If you really think there would be a big difference between a Romney or Obama presidency you are kidding yourself. They say anything they can to try to make themselves seem different, but if you actually look at their records rather than their words they are extremely similar. http://www.politicalcompass.org/uselection2012

Comment Re:Tremendous implications for telemedicine (Score 3, Informative) 96

I could see it working on earth, but surely the latency would make it impossible for a physician on earth to tactility interact with a patient on Mars. At best Mars is about 3 light minutes away from earth, and it can be as far as 20+ light minutes away. 100-200ms is enough to throw off online gamers, so I imagine 600,000ms would be a bit too much for a doctor to work with.

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