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Intel Looks to Extend the Life of Your Batteries

Chip giant is working with other tech companies to develop new technologies to provide more power to mobile computers.

Sumner Lemon, IDG News Service

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TAIPEI -- Facing greater power demands on laptops from technologies such as wireless networking, Intel has lined up a consortium of hardware makers to work on developing batteries, fuel cells, and related technologies that offer longer battery life for mobile computers.

The group, called the Mobile PC Extended Battery Life Working Group, held its first meeting here on Wednesday to discuss organizational issues and its initial development priorities.

Alongside Intel, executives from Acer, Asustek Computer, Compal Electronics, Dell Computer, First International Computer, Fujitsu, Inventec, Legend Group, LG Electronics, Matsushita Electric Industrial, Microsoft, NEC, Samsung Electronics, Toshiba, Quanta Computer, and Wistron are working together to find ways to extend the life of laptop batteries up to eight hours or more on a single charge, according to a senior Intel executive.

Past the Processor

"We have to expand the focus beyond the processor alone," said Anand Chandrasekher, vice president and co-general manager of Intel's Mobile Platforms Group, in a speech to hardware makers at the Intel Developer Forum here on Tuesday.

"One of the challenges collectively for us as an industry is to extend battery life well beyond eight hours," Chandrasekher said. "It requires us to come together as an industry. The CPU and the chipset account for only 30 percent of the power consumption of the [laptop] platform."

The first products resulting from the group's work are expected to hit the market in 2004, Chandrasekher said.

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