koomey's law

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29 Nov 2016 • 2 min read

Our latest on energy efficiency of computing over time, now out in Electronic Design

My colleague Sam Naffziger (AMD) and I just published our latest article titled “Energy efficiency of computing: What’s next?” in the magazine Electronic Design. Here’s the abstract, which didn’t make it into the actual online article: Today’s computing systems operate at peak output a tiny fraction

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7 Apr 2015 • 1 min read

Our article, “Efficiency's brief reprieve: Moore's Law slowdown hits performance more than energy efficiency”, is in IEEE Spectrum this month

I and Sam Naffziger of Advanced Micro Devices just published a short article in IEEE Spectrum’s April 2015 issue, which happens to be the Moore’s law 50th anniversary issue. Here are the first couple of paragraphs: The graph posted above summarizes the main story, which is that peak

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