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To: Petz who wrote (28182)	2/12/2001 3:44:05 PM
From: AK2004	Respond to of 275872

John re:Even at 300 MHz, the first number is 4.6 watts. Intel has not caught up to TMTA by a long shot. but intel did address their concerns of power consumption of the chips running at 30GHz 10-20 years from now. :-)) At this point I am not sure if it is funny or sad.... Regards -Albert

To: Petz who wrote (28182)	2/12/2001 7:18:58 PM
From: fyodor_	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 275872

Petz:Intel has not caught up to TMTA by a long shot. I firmly believe heat dissipation, not power consumption, is the problem in notebooks today. The display already accounts for something like 60% of the total power consumption and it isn't going anywhere soon. When you then add all the other non-CPU components (esp. chipset, memory and hard drive), there's not that much left. In the end, CPU power consumption could drop to zero and it wouldn't make much of an impact on battery lifetimes. There are 3 kinds of processors. Those that only require a heatsink, those that also require a fan, and those that just dissipate too much heat to work in a mobile setting. -fyo