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The most effective of those strategies (specialized hardware, SIMD/wide-register instructions, shallow suspend, etc.) are only possible with hardware support. S
by azernik 8y ago
The most effective of those strategies (specialized hardware, SIMD/wide-register instructions, shallow suspend, etc.) are only possible with hardware support. So yes, even though transistor and ALU power efficiency isn't going down that fast, the power usage of a given complete processor or SoC is going down.