Intel's Next CPU To Include Dedicated 'Power Control Unit' to Save Power

Intel Nehalem PCU image

Making more Power-Efficient Computer Processors
Efficiency and power management are all the rage these days in the IT world. Novel ways of cooling data centers, virtualization and consolidation, etc. The hardware itself has also gotten better in the past few years (for example, desktop and server CPUs now have many of the features that used to be found only in laptop CPUs).

Nehalem's PCU, 1 Million Transistors
Intel has announced at the Intel Developer Forum (IDF) that i7 a.k.a. Nehalem, its next g...


None
A comma-separated list of terms describing this content. Example: funny, bungee jumping, "Company, Inc.".
Original Story: TreeHugger