Detail : (British Library)

Record Number:
10202

Shelfmark:
Add. 28330

Page Folio Number:
f.8v

Description:
(Whole folio) Drawing of two Ancient Britons; one with tattoos, and carrying a spear and shield; the other painted with woad, and carrying a sword and round shield


Title of Work:
Description of Great Britain and Ireland

Author:
Heere, Lucas de

Illustrator:
-

Production:
Netherlands; circa 1574

Language/Script:
Dutch / -

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MOUNTAIN VIEW, California: Google and Intel are leading a consortium of major technology companies in an effort to sharply reduce the amount of power wasted by personal computers and servers.

The energy-saving effort, announced Tuesday, is called the Climate Savers Computing Initiative. It will also include a large-scale campaign to educate consumers and corporate computer managers about technology's role in the emission of greenhouse gases.

Companies agreeing to Climate Savers standards will try to build machines that are at least 90 percent efficient in their power use by promoting new technologies, setting new standards and encouraging more efficient use by consumers.

"I think we can make a very large impact very quickly," said Larry Page, who founded Google with Sergey Brin. "All of this is doable today. We're just taking the opportunity to shoot for a higher bar."

The initiative has received the support of IBM, Hewlett-Packard, Dell, Advanced Micro Devices, Sun Microsystems and Microsoft, among others. It is also supported by the National Wildlife Federation and the Environmental Protection Agency.

The group envisions better power management in computers, roughly equivalent to taking 11 million cars off the highway, according to Patrick Gelsinger, senior vice president in charge of Intel's digital enterprise group.

Gelsinger said that the new technologies could result in price increases for consumers of about $20 a computer, but that customers would make up for the extra expense in energy savings within a year or two. Proposed rebates from utility companies will probably allow customers to recoup the additional expense even more quickly, he said.

In a separate development, Intel is expected to cut prices on some of its higher-end processors in July to make room for new power-saving chip technology expected in the second half of the year.

Gelsinger declined to comment on the reports of impending price cuts, but company officials said Intel routinely reduces prices throughout the year.

Intel will cut prices of high-performance server processors sometime in July. The price cuts will come as Intel is preparing to introduce a new chip family this autumn called Penryn, which promises a significant increase in performance without consuming more power.

But unlike the price cuts of last year, which set off a price war with Advanced Micro Devices, these price cuts are more routine, analysts say.

Henri Richard, executive vice president of Advanced Micro, said that his company had announced its own plans for price reductions.

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