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Re:Efficient Computer's Electron E1 CPU – 100x more efficien... by santaboom on Saturday July 26, 2025 @06:14AM (#44692898)
See amdahls law Edit: [0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amdahl%27s_law
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Re:Efficient Computer's Electron E1 CPU – 100x more efficien... by actionfromafar on Saturday July 26, 2025 @04:31PM (#44696741)
Yes but we are also talking about energy efficiency
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Re:Efficient Computer's Electron E1 CPU – 100x more efficien... by santaboom on Saturday July 26, 2025 @08:33PM (#44698000)
See figure 1 in [0] operation execution is just 0.1pj of 70pj required for a 32 bit int addition… how do you think I was applying amdahls law? Edit: I was using amdahls law as it applies to parallel processors. However in terms of energy usage …

See amdahls laws and use your imagination [0] https://semiengineering.com/more-data-drives-focus-on-ic-ene...

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Re:Efficient Computer's Electron E1 CPU – 100x more efficien... by LargoLasskhyfv on Sunday July 27, 2025 @01:00AM (#44698997)
See 'Apple-Core', Microgrids, SVP, UTLEON3

In theory, in practice this seems to have failed, but still...

Also related: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/project/emips/

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