14 DAY TRIAL // It's one thing to say that a CPU is efficient and another to provide it by having it work on just the energy generated by a glass of wine.
Yet that is precisely what Intel has done. Apparently irritated with many people still thinking it can't hold a candle to ARM in that department, Chipzilla showed something special at IDF.
Dr. Genevieve Bell put two electrodes into a glass of wine. Said electrodes reacted with the acetic acid inside, creating a small current that was, nonetheless, enough to fuel the low-power chipset at the other end of the wires.
Since low-power chips are the future, this demo may strike quite a few cords. The chipset is otherwise useless really, but it made its point.
Sure, it's more likely that solar energy will be used for electronics in the future, but wine is a fair bit more poetic.