Samsung greens up Hummingbird

Samsung has enjoyed mass popularity with its 'Hummingbird' technology, the processor responsible for powering many mobile devices, writes Reviews of Electronics.

'Exynos' is the newest successor to the Hummingbird tech, and is a name whose origin underlines the company's dedication to green technology; Samsung explains that 'Exynos' is derived from two Greek words, 'expynos' (meaning smart) and 'praisnos' (which means 'green').

“Smart refers to high-performance aspect and Green represents low power features of Samsung's application processors,” says Samsung. The first official Exynos chip will be in production next month. Termed Exynos 4210, the latest tech includes a 1GHz dual-core application processor, which has been optimised for long battery life and powerfully swift HD multimedia. All future Exynos devices will attend to tablets, mobile phones, and various other mobile-related tech.

AMD have hailed its Fusion initiative as a move towards greener technology, states LaptopShop.

The company say that their Accelerated Processing Units - or APUs - are responsible for reducing the carbon footprint of technology, thanks to their phenomenally low power consumptions.

So, the report says, it appears that AMD chips like the Zacate and the Ontario are saving the planet thanks to AMD's innovative technology which allows them to cram a dual core processor and a graphics processor into one tiny chip.

A study conducted by a Masters student in conjunction with the environmental business group, Netimpact showed that an APU Fusion chip produces 40.2kg of CO2 greenhouse gas in its lifetime, a 40.3% reduction from the CO2 produced by previous generation products such as the AMD Athlon Neo II.

With green and clean being the buzzwords today, environmental engineering has assumed great importance, and considered only an offshoot of civil engineering two decades ago, it is now the most sought after subject at both undergraduate and post-graduate levels, says the Times of India.

The reason is the wide scope it offers for employment as well as for private consultancy work in industries and urban bodies like corporations, CMC and metros.

According to A Ganesh, coordinator, M Tech Environmental Engineering, and professor, civil engineering, Manipal Institute of Technology, though there are BE courses in environmental engineering in some of the engineering colleges across the state and country, PG courses exist only in a handful of colleges.