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AMD thinks Green

AMD has announced new goals designed to lessen its impact on the environmental. The chipmaker is pledging to further reduce its emissions of so-called greenhouse gasses, such as carbon dioxide, as part of its 2007 Global Climate Protection Plan, unveiled today. Since 2001, AMD says it has reduced its greenhouse...

Tags: semiconductors, Power conservation, Intel, Energy efficiency, AMD

Blog posts 2007-07-24

Transmeta investment could be a benefit in the LongRun

What’s AMD doing investing in Transmeta? Given its focus on cost-savings of late, AMD could be thinking that spending $7.5 million with Transmeta, now, could possibly help save many millions in research and development in the future. Here’s why: Transmeta may be best known for making low-power chips. But...

Tags: semiconductors, Power conservation, multicore processors, AMD

Blog posts 2007-07-09

AMD and Intel: It takes a platform

There's a story behind the story of AMD’s Puma notebook PC platform, unveiled today. It’s about behind-the-scenes collaboration. After hearing about Puma's development first hand, I believe that on both engineering and marketing levels, AMD has begun reshaping its approach to the PC market by taking advantage of the ability...

Tags: AMD, Intel, multicore processors, notebooks, Nvidia, Power conservation, semiconductors, Uncategorized

Blog posts 2007-05-18

Not your father's Intel Architecture

Intel is using this weeks Intel Developer Forum in Beijing to show the new direction in which it is taking its processors. The chipmaker has begun to shift away from designing and manufacturing monolithic or single function chips. Instead, it has begun to create silicon that pairs its Intel Architecture...

Tags: Uncategorized, Servers, semiconductors, Semiconductor architecture, Power conservation, multicore processors, Intel, Data centers, AMD

Blog posts 2007-04-17

Servers bathed in oil

A Porsche-o-phile friend of mine sort of jokes that air-cooled Porsche 911 sports car engines aren’t so much air-cooled as they are cooled by circulating their oil, some 12 or 15 quarts of it. (For a more technical explanation, Google “air-cooled Porsche.”) Porsche enthusiasts still argue about the merits of...

Tags: Servers, Power conservation, Uncategorized, semiconductors, Intel, Data centers, AMD

Blog posts 2007-04-11

Additional Resources

A flip of the on switch: Utah wind project goes online

Seems wasteful to send the energy 2 states away...Very cool to see a big wind farm come online, but most of that energy is going to be wasted on transmission line leakage by the time it gets to California. We really need to get to the point of highly-localized power...

Tags: power generation

Discussion threads 2009-11-11

Midwest tech firm now wind driven

Other World Computing OWC is in McHenry County, Illinois, and now their power comes from the wind. OWC claims the title of "first 100 percent on-site wind powered technology manufacturer/distributor in the U.S." It's using Vestas-made wind turbines for all its daily electricity needs. ...

Tags: Turbine, Other World Computing, Other World Computing HQ, Telecom & Utilities, Harry Fuller

Blog posts 2009-10-26

Apple Magic Mouse

Apple's latest pointer, the Magic Mouse, is included with its new iMac desktops, but you can purchase it separately for $69. Just don't confuse it with the Mighty Mouse, because although they're the same price, the differences end there. The Magic Mouse gets an aerodynamic face-lift and also supports...

Tags: Mice, mouse, Magic Mouse, Apple Inc.

Product reviews 2009-10-21

Auto Shutdown PC 2.1 (Windows)

Auto Shutdown PC is a handy software that help you automatically shut down, power off, reboot, hibernate, suspend or log off computers at scheduled time and conditions you specified. It can shut down computer at scheduled time even when no user is logged on, the computer is in suspended power...

Tags: PC, Microsoft Windows, Computer, eTimeInc Software, Auto Shutdown PC, Productivity

Software downloads 2009-10-08

Developers plan integrated platform for managing energy, resource conservation goals

It must be awfully annoying for businesses to have to deal with point applications for environmental/energy management. Plainly speaking, these things should be just part of overall management tools associated with compliance, sustainability and overall operational excellence initiatives. Someone must have clued in ESS, which provides Environmental,...

Tags: Software, Sustainability, Compliance, Greenhouse Gas, Crisis Management, Tools & Techniques, Management, Heather Clancy

Blog posts 2009-09-21

California screenin': Majority of residents oppose big-screen TV ban

California has long been at the leading edge of energy conservation, for better and, sometimes, for worse. Case in point: The California Energy Commission has proposed set power-usage limits on television sets that manufacturers would have to meet in order to sell those TVs in the state. If adopted, the...

Tags: California, HDTV, TVs, Tv & Home Theater, Personal Technology, Home Entertainment, Sean Portnoy

Blog posts 2009-09-17

Is lower power consumption Windows 7's killer feature?

what killer feature?I don't know about OSX but Linux is more energy efficient than windoze.FYIsold by M$ under the namne of 'Windows' something.What is this "Windoze" you speak of?Never heard about it before....Anyway, can Linux run my programs? (Office, Photoshop, the latest games, Windows Live Essentials?) No? Oh.... Thats some...

Tags: Operating systems, Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Windows 7, killer feature

Discussion threads 2009-09-03

PC Auto Shutdown 4 (Windows)

PC Auto Shutdown helps you automatically shutdown, power off, reboot, hibernate, suspend or log off computers at schedule time you specifies. It can shut down computers at schedule time when no user is logged on or when computers are in suspended power conservation mode. It gives you different ways to...

Tags: PC, Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Internet Explorer, Computer, GoldSolution, Web Browsers, Productivity, Internet

Software downloads 2009-09-02

Colbert heats up global warming

Too funnySo, 350ppm means certain environmental disaster? And we're already above that? Hmmm...Back to the drawing board...I really REALLY resent the Chicken Littles running around screaming their heads off, and I'm gradually getting the feeling that, even if originally well-intentioned, they can't see the forest for the trees.What...

Tags: disclamer, Colbert, global warming, scientific community, carbon dioxide

Discussion threads 2009-08-25

Lean and green? Which corp leads EPA's green practics list?

Kimberly-Clark. Here's a look at the EPA's top nine list. The rankings are done based on renewable energy use and conservation. Doesn't measure whether they get leather from Brazilian cattle or recycled paper shipped in from China. I'm glad to see one of my favorite beer...

Tags: U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Telecom & Utilities, Harry Fuller

Blog posts 2009-07-29

NetSuite offers discount for green-friendly organizations

First, Symantec published some enterprise survey results suggesting that businesses are exploring software as a service SaaS as a green computing option. Now, on-demand business applications company NetSuite has tied some specific metrics to the trend. According to an "impact" study conducted for NetSuite conducted by Greenspace,...

Tags: NetSuite Inc., Data Centers, Storage, Hardware, Data Management, Heather Clancy

Blog posts 2009-07-27

To the Moon: Boeing, the Rocket Foundry

To the Moon: Boeing, the Rocket FoundryResourceAn excellent resource on the Saturn program is "Stages to Saturn", by Roger E. Bilstein. It is part of the NASA History Series (NASA catalog number SP-4206), and is still available (US$50, + shipping) from the US GPO (http://bookstore.gpo.gov/subjects/sb-222.jsp).While being somewhat dry as...

Tags: PRODUCTIVITY, Rocket Foundry, Boeing Co., Saturn, F-1

Discussion threads 2009-07-11

IT Consultancy Saves Energy, Simplifies IT Management With Operating System Upgrade

SoftJam is an information and communications technology consultancy headquartered in Genoa, Italy, and with offices in Milan, Italy. Founded in 1996, the company has 75 employees. Its primary driver was to deploy new technologies as soon as possible so that it can offer customers the best solutions available on the...

Tags: IT Administration, Information Technology, Operating System, Italy, IT Consultancy, SoftJam, Strategy, Management

Case studies 2009-06-19

Maximizing Unavailability Interval for Energy Saving in IEEE 802.16e Wireless MANs

This paper presents an energy conservation scheme, Maximum Unavailability Interval MUI, to improve the energy efficiency for the Power Saving Class of Type II in IEEE 802.16e. By applying the Chinese Remainder Theorem, the proposed MUI is guaranteed to find the maximum Unavailability Interval, during which the transceiver can be...

Tags: IEEE, IEEE 802.16, Wireless, Maximum Unavailability Interval, WiMAX, Productivity, Wireless And Mobility

White papers 2009-04-01

Calling all carbon capture and recycling companies

Calling all carbon capture and recycling companiesRecycling is illegal.You can't make anything out of garbage!Really who would purchase anything made out of garbage?There would be no way that garbage particles could be filtered out of plastic or even paper to make the material good enough for use in these sophisticated...

Tags: Taxes, Free trade, Big Brother, inmate, recycling company, carbon capture, tax, global warming

Discussion threads 2009-03-23