Computer scientists leverage dark silicon to improve smartphone battery life
Thursday, September 2, 2010 - 11:49
in Physics & Chemistry
A new smartphone chip prototype under development at the University of California, San Diego will improve smartphone efficiency by making use of 'dark silicon' - the underused transistors in modern microprocessors. On August 23, UC San Diego computer scientists presented GreenDroid, the new smartphone chip prototype at the HotChips symposium in Palo Alto, CA...