Researchers Use Calculation Errors To Greatly Improve Processor Speed And Power Effic

JMH · May 18, 2012

A team of researchers from prominent institutions around the world claim that they've figured out how to make computer processors smaller, faster and more power efficient than ever before: by letting chips mess up once in a while.
No, seriously. By allowing "inexact" chips to make a pre-calculated amount of errors rather than striving for absolute perfection, the researchers claim that drastic power reductions can be made -- and they already have a working prototype.

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Researchers Use Calculation Errors To Greatly Improve Processor Speed And Power Effic

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