The online world in general, and Europe in particular, have experienced a considerable rise in electricity bills in recent years. Does the newest technology have anything to do with it, especially the chips? Yes, on something.
Although governments are constantly blamed for this, the advancement of modern technology also has its point of responsibility.
All components of PCs, laptops, televisions and other electronic products their quality is improving, which inevitably influences the consumption of electrical energy.
As it explains hard zone, In the case of chips, the most current ones have several functions at the same time, such as processing, transmitting and storing data.
“A good part of the design of the processors is to bring the information to the execution units, so that they can process it,” says the specialized portal.
“The problem is that by the laws of physics It’s more expensive to transport bits than anything else these days, and one of the consequences is that the chips raise the electricity bill, by consuming more, obviously”.
This is the energy consumption of the chips, how does it affect the electricity bill?
Bill Dally, NVIDIA’s Chief Scientist, made an explanatory chart of chip power consumption in Joules per second (watts). Consumption will vary depending on where the data is located:
- If it’s in the logs, 20 pJ (picoJoules) or 0.02 nJ (nanoJoules).
- But if you have to access the cache to find them, go up to 50 pJ or 0.05 nJ.
- If the data is in RAM, the consumption rises to 16 nJ or 16000 pJ.
In the words of Hard Zone, accessing RAM costs a thousand times more energy to carry out the same operation than the information is in the processor.
The closest solutions to reduce the electricity bill are still under development. They are Near Memory Processing and Processing in Memory.
Near Memory Processing is near-memory processing, while the second, Processing in Memory (PIM) they are not processors themselves, but memory chips with internal processing capabilities.