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nilsbunger on March 18, 2014 | parent | context | favorite | on: Android coming to wearables

More transistors comes from smaller transistors -- not bigger dies. Smaller transistors use lower voltage. And power usage is proportional to V^2.

So for a given amount of computation, power goes down a lot due to Moore's law.

bryanlarsen on March 18, 2014 [–]

This is much less true now than it has been in the past, due to current leakage effects.

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