New approaches to design and better use of new and existing tools will go a long way toward improving energy efficiency. But who’s going to pick up the tab?

Data centers are finally seeing ways to chop their operating expenses. It’s about time.

The mobility of data, not the device, will become the determining factor in future power budgets.

Why Icahn really wants control of Mentor has nothing to do with what Mentor does for a living. It’s all about making money fast.

Top chip developers say most of their major concerns at future nodes involve energy usage, leakage and thermal effects.

But that doesn’t mean there isn’t a lot more to do in order to reduce power.

More and more is getting pushed down to the SoC designers. Where’s the money?

Low-power engineering is becoming a staple of almost every design, not just at the leading edge.

The big problem in low-power engineering isn’t the technology. It’s the number of people using it.

The enormous disconnect between innovation in low-power design approaches and the overall economic climate is shrinking.