Power Consumption
Power consumption is another design criterion that factors in the design of modern computers. Power efficiency can often be traded for performance or cost benefits. The typical measurement in this case is MIPS/W (millions of instructions per watt).
With the increasing power density of modern circuits as the number of transistors per chip scales (Moore's law), power efficiency has increased in importance. Recent processor designs such as the Intel Core 2 put more emphasis on increasing power efficiency. Also, in the world of embedded computing, power efficiency has long been and remains an important goal next to throughput and latency.
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