Brown has nine years experience in the PC industry covering engineering, program management and marketing. He received bachelor's and master's degrees in Micro-Electronic Systems Engineering from Manchester University, England. Intel's Instantly Available Personal Computer technology is designed to improve the capacity of a PC to stay connected to information networks while providing much more effective management of PC energy use and reducing the lengthy boot-up times PCs currently need. The 5-watt power usage is less than most TVs and VCRs in standby mode. According to the EPA, the energy used by the Instantly Available PC will likely be much lower than the energy used by the average Energy Star computer and, of course, by personal computers without any power-management technology.
Projections are for the United States only.
As the graph shows, the gap between baseline carbon emissions and those from the Instantly Available PC grows steadily through the year 2005. Indeed, by 2005, carbon emissions from Instantly Available PC-equipped computers are less than half of those in the baseline projection. The first computers with Instantly Available PC are likely to be shipped in the last quarter of 1998, with larger numbers early in 1999. Intel is soliciting agreements with PC manufacturers to integrate the technology into the manufacture of their machines. Intel Corporate Statement on Energy Efficiency Intel's Instantly Available technology further contributes to energy savings, while fundamentally changing the way home and business PCs will be used in the future.