The patents relate to power efficiency. Transmeta, the chip designer that once tried to take on Intel in the laptop market, is suing Intel for patent infringement. It alleges Intel violated 10 of its patents and that the intellectual property...
Microsoft has refuted these claims and recently released a survey investigating Vista's in-built energy efficiency. Pat Tiernan, vice president, corporate, social and environmental responsibility at HP, said: "Sustainability should span the entire...
Google, Intel and a host of PC and component companies on Tuesday unfurled the Climate Savers Computing Initiative, an effort to increase energy efficiency in PCs. At the heart of the initiative is a push to get PC makers and consumers to adopt...
IBM is launching an initiative to give its corporate customers a way to measure and potentially monetise energy-efficiency measures in their data centres using an emerging form of currency. Or they can sell the energy-efficiency certificates on the...
SAS estimates the initiative will generate 1.7 million kilowatt-hours of energy per year leading to an annual CO2 reduction of 1,600 tonnes. Under North Carolina's Renewable Energy and Energy Efficiency Portfolio Standard, by 2021, utility...
The Carbon Trust estimates that it consumes 15 per cent of the total electricity used in offices, expected to rise to 30 per cent by 2020, with around two-thirds of the energy consumed by office equipment being attributed to computers.