IMPERFECT WORKS FASTER
Posted on June 10th, 2012 by Joy Schwabach
Sometimes it’s good to be imperfect. Researchers from Rice University in Houston,Texas, have discovered that a less accurate microchip uses only a fraction of the electricity of today’s microprocessors. In fact, the new microchip is 7.5 times more efficient when calculations were allowed to be off by as little as one fourth of one percent.
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