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I imagine some tiny percentage would instead be dissipated as light/radio waves or sound too - hence my ~99% comment. There's also this: (https://en.wikipedia.
by p1necone 8y ago
I imagine some tiny percentage would instead be dissipated as light/radio waves or sound too - hence my ~99% comment.
There's also this: (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Landauer%27s_principle https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Landauer%27s_principle) if you want some light reading.
- pooppaint 8y agoIndeed there will be some piezoelectric effect and some EM emissions on the order of micro watts compared to the 10s of watts burned by the CPU. But the poster I was replying to seemed quite confused about the fate of power in a CPU used for computation: It’s dissipated as heat.