The field of information technology and personal computers are increasingly attentive to environmental impacts of their business, not just an ethical issue but also because the question of sustainability comes from customers. For example, to meet this growing demand, Via Technologies, Inc, a leading innovator and developer of silicon chip technologies and PC platform solutions, today announced with partners, Evesham Technology and Tranquil PC, the first Carbon Free computer in the world processor-based highly efficient VIA C7-D. Personal computers Carbon3 Evesham and Tranquil solutions, such as the new T7, combine the high efficiency and offsetting carbon emissions produced by the operation of systems during their life through investments in projects for energy conservation, reforestation alternative energy in Britain. Via has also produced the first computer center powered by solar energy the entire area of \u200b\u200bthe South Pacific. Developed with the Samoan ICT Secretariat, the center is one of the first concrete achievements of VIA Solar Computing, a key element of the VIA Clean Computing Initiative aimed at promoting a computer engineer environment-oriented. Accessible to all, the VIA pc-1 Information Community Centre in Samoa will help address concerns about e-Education and e-Health and e-Governance for local residents and provide employment opportunities for themselves and the surrounding communities, as well to offer Internet access to tourists. Following the successful launch, the center is taken as a real model to create similar centers throughout the IT world and to help bridge the digital divide, especially in rural and remote areas. VIA is working with major international organizations and governments to further promote these projects. The VIA pc-1 Information Community Centre in Samoa includes the installation of three VIA PC-1 Power Saving PCs and a server VIA pc-1, as well as a multifunction device (fax / scanner / copier / printer) outside, all powered by a photovoltaic solar panel from 175-watt powered by Motech Industries. With this implementation, the center has made in overcoming the greatest obstacles faced by developing countries in the process of computerization, the development of appropriate technology, renewable energy reliable Internet access, sustainability through training and appropriate business opportunities, and has filled the gap that exists between the different sectors working to bridge the digital divide, namely private, public, civil society, academia and international organizations.
But the initiatives of the EIA are not the only, and some of the big industry players are moving in the same direction. For BEGINNING month at the Intel Developer Forum in San Francisco on the new quad-core microprocessors, Paul Otellini, Intel president and CEO, has revealed plans to accelerate the company's leadership in technology, and announced to the thousands developers and technical progress that occurred in the technology of silicon are expected to deliver new levels of performance in an era of energy efficiency in computing. "The sector is one of the turning more radical in recent decades, opening the door to a new era where performance and energy efficiency are strategic factors in all market segments and in all aspects of computing," Otellini said . In 2005, Intel was the first to implement the advanced technology of silicon production at 65 nm, integrating power-saving features in the strategic process that have proven to provide energy efficiency at the transistor level. estimates Otellini, the "cadence" of these process technologies production following Moore's Law combined with Intel's plans to introduce new microarchitectures almost every two years by 2010 will lead to an improvement of 300% of performance per watt than current products based on Intel Core microarchitecture. The company is also working with a new category of PC, ultra-portable PCs, which by 2008 will lead to the realization of devices with power consumption 10 times lower than current notebook.
Google, for its part, during the event in San Francisco, announced that its computers only waste 10% of energy provided to them, against 30-40% of computer traditional communities with the fact that the company assembles the machines in the house based on its particular needs (for which it has a fleet of more than 300,000 server !!!). A Google engineer Luiz Barroso, has estimated that 100 million computers running eight hours a day with the architecture designed by Google Milardi can save 40 kilowatt-hours over three years for an economic value of more than 5 billion dollars. Among other things, Google founders Page and Brin, invest some time in the field of renewable energy. Thanks to them was born one of the most interesting projects in Silicon Valley, one of Nanosolar, founded in 2001 and is being achieved in California, the largest factory in the world for the production of solar panels. The plant will open its doors in 2007 and will be able to "churn" a million solar panels a year for a total of 430 MW installed capacity in a position to give power to about 325 000 families. The Silicon Valley is entering forcefully in the field of renewable energy, particularly photovoltaics, thanks to the continuity in the use of silicon technology.
But it's not all big announcements. Under track there are several avenues of research in the field of energy use in the IT sector. In particular, we are working hard on new systems, portable power devices, with batteries to ' hydrogen , ethanol and other substances of plant origin. The story has just begun ... we will see some good!
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