Sep 26, 2006 (04:09 PM EDT) Google, Intel Call For Vastly More
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InformationWeek At the Intel Developer Forum in San Francisco on
Tuesday, Intel CTO Justin Rattner invited Google engineer Luiz
Barroso on stage to call for more efficient PC power supplies.
Noting that the power supply is often the component that
consumes the most energy in current PCs, Barroso highlighted
findings from a newly published Google white paper. The paper,
"High-efficiency power supplies for home computers and servers,"
by Google engineers Urs Holzle and Bill Weihl, states that
Google has managed to increase the typical efficiency of power
supplies from 60 to 70% to at least 90% efficiency, reducing
lost energy by a factor of four. Barroso and other Google
engineers believe that home computers can be made just as
efficient as Google servers. Toward that end, Google, Intel, and
other partners are proposing a new power supply standard.
Assuming the new power supply design gets dep