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Re:IBM creates breathing, high-density, light-weight lithium... by pvarangot on Friday April 20, 2012 @10:30AM (#3868009)
A lo of that improvement must also be from chips consuming less and more RAM resulting in no need for paging.
Re:IBM creates breathing, high-density, light-weight lithium... by frankus on Friday April 20, 2012 @01:19PM (#3868836)
That's what really separates consumer electronics from cars: processing data requires (from a theoretical physics standpoint) a minuscule amount of energy, and there's a lot of room for improvement even with current technology.

Moving heavy things up hills or through air at high speeds requires a respectable amount of energy, and current technology is already within an order of magnitude or so to the theoretical peak efficiency.