Your phone's battery life could improve markedly thanks to a tiny CPU tweak

Tweaking the way a microprocessor works can have dramatic effect on the power consumption of that component researchers at the University of Illinois (UoI) found out. The group managed to reduce the power consumption by a staggering 97%.By reducing the power consumption of an essential part of a processor called the serial link, they claim that they would be able to save about $870 million (about £590 million, AU$1.14 billion) in annual energy costs for data centers in North America alone.Extra