Friday 18 March 2011

Chip Makers Sacrifice Accuracy for Energy Efficiency

In a quest to make faster chips and deliver low-power computing, scientists have creating good-enough chips that instead of performing every calculation to its exact decimal point, are allowed to make mistakes.

This field of computing could improve big data analysis, networking and even hearing aids.

Source:
http://gigaom.com/2011/03/16/chip-makers-sacrifice-accuracy-for-energy-efficiency/

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