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  • Microsoft's third-generation player, the Zune HD in both 16- and 32-GB sizes, for example, features a power-sipping OLED touch screen that our testers found to be as bright and sharp as the iPod touch's screen.

    Are Microsoft Zune digital players coming to an end? 2011

  • Both Intel and AMD, moreover, have yet to match the power-sipping chip designs of ARM Holdings PLC to play a major role in the fast-moving market for tablet-style computers.

    AMD Tries to Close Gap in Chip Power Usage With Intel Don Clark 2011

  • Both Intel and AMD, moreover, have yet to match the power-sipping chip designs of ARM Holdings PLC to play a major role in the fast-moving market for tablet-style computers.

    AMD Tries to Close Gap in Chip Power Usage With Intel Don Clark 2011

  • But as firms like Nvidia and Texas Instruments get their powerful, yet power-sipping ARM-based application processors into mobile Internet devices and netbooks, the power consumption [...]

    Texas Instruments to Offer a Champion Chipset for Mobile 2009

  • But as firms like Nvidia and Texas Instruments get their powerful, yet power-sipping ARM-based application processors into mobile Internet devices and netbooks, the power consumption difference could disappear.

    Smartphones and Netbooks: Closer Than Kissing Cousins 2009

  • The client is generally a diskless, power-sipping, thin client system that does little or nothing more than connect to the VDI infrastructure.

    Making the leap to virtual desktop infrastructure 2010

  • Of course, once these electrophoretic screens are universally accepted as state-of-the art power-sipping alternatives to text reading LCDs PVI will take over the world as Intel once did simply by acquiring the rights to Busicom's 4004 chip** Its worth noting that general acceptance of the Busicom chip came after calculators were developed for academic use in classrooms, forcing the obsolescence of slower, less accurate and more skills-intensive slide-rules.

    Giles Slade: Back To School Kindles 2009

  • Intel has revealed details of a new generation of chips designed for video game lovers, multi-taskers, and people seeking power-sipping computers adapted to increasingly mobile lifestyles.

    OpEdNews - Quicklink: Intel reveals design for fast, efficient future chips 2008

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    OpEdNews - Quicklink: Intel reveals design for fast, efficient future chips 2008

  • Stick the power-sipping pocket-sized lights almost anywhere, and press the middle whenever you need a bit of illumination from the three white LEDs within.

    Introducing Stick-on Lighting | Impact Lab 2006

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