New chip design delivers better performance, longer battery lilfe

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Hui Wu professor of electrical and computer engineering (PHOTO CREDIT: University of Rochester)
Hui Wu, professor of electrical and computer engineering (PHOTO CREDIT: University of Rochester)

Anyone who uses a cell phone or a WiFi laptop knows the irritation of a dead-battery surprise. But now researchers at the University of Rochester have broken a barrier in wireless chip design that uses a tenth as much battery power as current designs and, better yet, will use much less in emerging wireless devices of the future.


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