Is there a Moore’s law for energy efficiency?
December 20, 2011
The energy needed to perform computations is falling exponentially, a trend that predates the transistor.
IEEE Spectrum Podcast interviews Jonathan Koomey, a consulting professor in the department of civil and environmental engineering at Stanford University, who published a paper looking at the Moore’s Law-like exponential progress in the energy efficiency of computers over the past six decades.
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