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Re:Intel breaks ground on $20B Arizona plants as U.S. chip f... by wiz21c on Tuesday September 28, 2021 @08:16AM (#28681889)
> old power hungry cpu

note that global CO2 has risen since the birth of my CPU. So I doubt the next gen leads us to make less CO2... I know, the current CPU's consume less energy, but globally, because of the fall in price, I'm pretty confident that the energy saved on the CPU is completely offset by the number of CPU sold.

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Re:Intel breaks ground on $20B Arizona plants as U.S. chip f... by Cthulhu_ on Tuesday September 28, 2021 @09:06AM (#28682284)
Plus the total consumption of a CPU doesn't actually go down, they just do more with it. They look at thermal limits more than power consumption, like, how much work can we make it do within these temperature ranges.

Mobile chips are a bit different, but to a point it's the same story there. If you put the chips of today in the smartphones of a decade ago they would probably last a week on a battery charge.

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