Mobile devices are energy efficient by design, while traditional PC architectures are not. This may seem like a trivial and obvious point, but it may still be worth making. Technology has a way of being influenced by its origins such that obsolete constraints and objectives live on throughout the decades. It may well be that the most practical way to reduce the energy bill for our information technology is to accelerate the transition to mobile platforms, even when we don’t necessarily need the mobility. Continue reading →