power consumption news from FierceCIO

In the latest salvo against arch-rival AMD, Intel is releasing a total of five new processors as part of its Centrino 2 platform that is designed to do tasks like high-definition video playback, yet Read more...

A Google engineer who studies the power consumption of the servers in its data centers has thrown cold water on the current approach adopted by chip manufacturers trying to churn out more "low power" Read more...

IBM this week demonstrated using water to cool three-dimensional stacks of processors. While still years away from production, this technology could well be implemented for its multicore servers as Read more...

Via Technologies is preparing its first high performance x86 chip targeted squarely at the mainstream. Historically, Via focused in niches like that of ultra-compact PCs, or small mobile devices

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Advanced Micro Devices Inc., has unveiled five low-power quad-core server processors, hoping to attract the attention of IT executives concerned about power efficiency and conservation. The x86 Read more...

Just how energy-efficent--or energy-hungry--is your computer, display, storage device, etc.? Here's one way to find out: the Cost Controller power strip, which gives you a readout of your gadget's

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What's that there on the horizon? The Loch Ness monster? The Spanish Armada? No--it's a floating data center! As far fetched as it might sound, one company is betting its future on the floating data Read more...

Find yourself desperate to eke out those last few minutes of juice from your Linux lappie more often than you'd like? Read more...

This green IT trend shows no signs of slowing down and having already spread to the desktop and the data center, there are few places left to go aside from the network. To that end, D-Link has Read more...

What's holding back 3G cellular technology in the United States? Good question. It could be the Read more...