Intel's Wine-Powered Microprocessor 126
angry tapir writes "In a new twist on strange brew, an Intel engineer has showed off a project using wine to power a microprocessor. The engineer poured red wine into a glass containing circuitry on two metal boards during a keynote by Genevieve Bell, Intel fellow, at the Intel Developer Forum in San Francisco. Once the red wine hit the metal, the microprocessor on a circuit board powered up. The low-power microprocessor then ran a graphics program on a computer with an e-ink display."
Genevieve Bell? Mike Bell? (Score:4, Funny)
The engineer poured red wine into a glass containing circuitry on two metal boards during a keynote by Genevieve Bell, Intel fellow, at the Intel Developer Forum in San Francisco.
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Low power doesn't mean low performance, with Intel now thinking about microwatts, not milliwatts, said Mike Bell, vice president and general manager of the New Devices group, during an appearance at the keynote.
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Future computing devices will be able to understand human behavior through data gathered by embedded sensors and other wearable technology, Bell said. Projects are also underway at Intel labs to bring a more "human element" to mobility, she said.
What a poorly edited article. One never knows which Bell -- Genevieve or Mike -- is speaking.
wine? (Score:5, Funny)
but wine is not an emulator! http://www.winehq.org/
oh, the other kind of wine
Cheer up, meatbags (Score:5, Funny)
And that's the story of how Bender's great-grandpappy was born.
What next ? (Score:5, Funny)
Wine is the first step, but why don't we use blood to power microprocessors ?
Everybody can easily extract blood, and a processor named Vampire would be so cool.
Re:Could it also run on urine? (Score:4, Funny)
Plus we get to name the support site Urine Trouble.
next up (Score:5, Funny)
In vino verilog. (Score:5, Funny)
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Re:Genevieve Bell? Mike Bell? (Score:5, Funny)
After all of the wine mysteriously disappeared, Mike became Genevieve.
Fixed.
Re:wine? (Score:4, Funny)
WINE = Wine Is Not Electricity
Re:AMD responds with beer CPU. Seriously, though . (Score:5, Funny)
I guess you never owned a Pentium 4.
Re:this just in (Score:5, Funny)
Incorrect, eloctrolysis uses direct current (DC) by definition :)