From Japan, a new microchip that reduces consumption related to the indicator lights of our standby devices to zero
He is about to end up run over, his mother saves himWaste of energy, no thank you. From Japan comes the latest technology "killer vampires "to eliminate consumption related to indicator lights of the TVs and other devices left in standby.
As we know, the nice red lights that indicate that our TV, PC but also appliances and other electronic equipment are on, produce a not just energy consumption. It has been estimated that in Great Britain they account for 10% of residential electricity consumption.
How to reduce costs and waste? Thanks to microchip developed by the researchers of the Tohoku University in partnership with NEC Corporation, which uses small magnets, instead of electricity, in such a way as to reduce a zero the amount of energy consumed in standby mode. By saving the "vital data" in memory, the new circuits use the mechanism of the so-called "spintronics".
In fact, the data is stored in each spinning electron rather than within each electron, making the chips more efficient and energy consumption lower.
According to what was stated by Professor Naoki Kasai of Tohoku University at the Guardian, the operation of the microchip is quite simple: “The energy needed by the devices can be interrupted as it does not require power supply to save or store the data, instead using the small magnets which in turn store '0' and '1' ". On or off.
According to Kasai, technology could also reduce energy consumption by 25% at the data centers hosting the servers.
Efficiency-Vampires 1-0!
Francesca Mancuso
