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"Today, our year-long vision of creating a 5mm thin hybrid hard drive in 2.5'' form factor with increased storage capacity and reduced power consumption at a lower cost for manufacturers has become a reality, " said Dr. Pantelis Alexopoulos, Executive Director of DSI.
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Xperia E has also been designed to let consumers stay on top of cost and power consumption.
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Smaller features mean both lower cost and lower power consumption, key for future mobile devices.
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Yesterday, we told you about StickNFind, a nifty electronic sticker that lets you locate anything you tack it to, and MeterPlug, the smartphone-compatible power monitor with cost estimates and realtime consumption readouts.
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Those gains take two forms: less electricity consumption and a lower cost per unit of processing power.
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The company's S-QLED technology improves on the picture quality and power consumption achieved by recently introduced OLED displays, while significantly reducing cost and improving lifetime well beyond what OLED can achieve.
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To achieve a reduction in size, DSI researchers developed a proprietary axial field motor which runs smoother, quieter, more efficiently, lowering power consumption by up to 70% yet at a fraction of the cost of SSDs.
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That can cut down on the cost of deployment, owing to the lower weight, power consumption and bulk of the equipment.
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The single chip reduces power consumption by about 20% during both communication and stand-by, as well as decreases the production cost for mobile devices.
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