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    According to Gartner Inc, as of 2008, the number of personal computers installed worldwide had surpassed 1 billion and at a 12 percent annual estimated growth rate, it is expected that the number of PCs will exceed 2 billion in 2014 [3]. According to Intel's official specifications the maximum Thermal Design Power (TDP) for their 2.00 GHz Pentium 4 Processor with 512K Cache is 54.3 W. [4] By simply multiplying this power value bythe number of PCs we can get a rough estimate of the total power CMOS power consumption resulting in a total

    power of 54.3 GW using the 1 billion worldwide PCs statistic. Note that TDP is not the maximum power consumption of the PC, but rather the maximum power the cooling system is required to dissipate. [5] This

    means that the 54.3 GW number is a low estimate for microprocessor power consumption. When we consider that this number only includes personal computers, meaning it does not include the processors in industrialsettings, for example Google servers, we see that this estimate is only a fraction of the true world CMOS power consumption.

    Srikanth Iyer. The author grants permission to copy, distribute and display this work in unaltered form, withattribution to the author, for noncommercial purposes only. All other rights, including commercial rights, arereserved to the author.

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    [1] C.-T. Sah, Fundamentals of Solid-state Electronics (World Scientific, 1991).

    [2] D. J. Frank, " The Limits of CMOS Scaling from a Power-Constrained Technology OptimizationPerspective ," Nanohub, 4 Oct 06.

    [3] "Gartner Says More than 1 Billion PCs In Use Worldwide and Headed to 2 Billion Units by 2014 ," GartnerInc., 23 Jun 08

    [4] "Intel Pentium 4 Processor 2.00 GHz, 512 Cache, 400 MHz FSB ," Intel Corp.

    [5] "Definition of TDP ," PC Magazine Encyclopedia.

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