Wednesday, September 21, 2005

Intel dives into the ultra-low power pool | CNET News.com

Intel has announced a processor that may be 1,000 times more power-efficient than existing ones! This is certainly good news for power-aware mobile computing. Now, we also need low-power displays, and combine them with low-power NICs, that are also soon to come out based on Hiearchical Power Management. I think that these developments will change user experience not just quantitatively, but qualitatively: you will charge your cell phone once a year, instead of weekly! Or, more realistically, perhaps, charge weekly, but do much more with it.

posted by S. Keshav @ Wednesday, September 21, 2005 0 comments  

Friday, September 16, 2005

Airgo

This really does look revolutionary - 4x wireless speeds, and robustness to boot. My beef with WiFi has always been that it is flaky because of its small labmda of 12.5cm. With MIMO, this problem is less severe, and I look forward to the next generation of fast, reliable, MIMO cards. Now, if they could only add hierararchical power control (a la Turdrucken)...

posted by S. Keshav @ Friday, September 16, 2005 0 comments  

Thursday, September 01, 2005

Ndiyo! - Ndiyo System

The Ndiyo approach supports 'ultra-thin' clients for developing countries. However, I think that a second hand PC attached to a Soekris box, that provides Knoppix, BOOTP, NAT, DHCP, and NFS, is a much better solution. It is cheap, spare parts are easily available, and we can reuse stuff instead of building more...

posted by S. Keshav @ Thursday, September 01, 2005 0 comments