AMD hasn't forgotten about that ambitious 2025 energy efficiency goal it promised

AMD says it is well on its way to achieving its ambitious goal to deliver a 30-fold increase in energy efficiency across its high-performance compute (HPC) platforms by 2025. In an update released Tuesday, CTO Mark Papermaster claimed the processor designer has already achieved a 6.79x efficiency gain in the eight months since …

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Energy efficiency has been a design priority for some time now

Design for power efficiency has been a priority for some time now as a lot of equipment is either battery powered or deployed on a large scale. This makes even seemingly irrelevant energy savings important.