The world''s lowest-power integrated circuit consumes 10 times less juice when active and better than 30,000 times less power in sleep mode, according to its developers at the University of Michigan. The so-called Phoenix processor was designed for medical implants but could also be used for ultralong-lived environmental monitors and military surveillance, the scientists said at the IEEE Symposium on VLSI Circuits in Honolulu.
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