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As far as where to innovate, how about engineering wifi/3G/LTE to use less than 700mW of power? The smartphone is the first universal tech for mankind, and CPU
by jp555 11y ago
As far as where to innovate, how about engineering wifi/3G/LTE to use less than 700mW of power?
The smartphone is the first universal tech for mankind, and CPU is not the bottleneck there, it's screens & radios, all batteries being equal of course.
- paulddraper 11y agoAlso: better batteries. That helps smartphones and electric cars.
- pjc50 11y agoPower per bit per km from tower is slowly decreasing there, but it requires a new clever noise floor hack for each generation. For a given modulation scheme, the power required to reliably transmit one bit a specific distance is effectively fixed by the laws of physics.