A team at the University of Pennsylvania has proposed designing processors to intermittently break into a sprint instead of their usual steady jog. Instead of always using all their cores, processors would work on one but fire up more (up to 16) when they needed a burst of power.
It could make smartphones run 10 times faster without needing to beef up the battery. Sprinting chips also mimic the way most of us use our devices: quick bursts of intense activity alongside steady, all-day use.
Not anytime soon. A material that can handle quick cooling and heating needs to be developed and the idea is still at lab stage. But give it a decade or two: six-month battery life here we come.
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