One of the big advantages of blogging is that I can write about anything I want, as long is it doesn’t violate any Intel conduct rules, refer to any competitors, reveal any confidential information, insult anyone, compliment people (yeah, I said compliment), and so on and so on and so on. Outside of that, I have a free hand.

This next series of articles is a case in point. I’m going to talk about performance per Watt. Why? Because I’m thinking about it. And I’m working on setting up some experiments. And I want to exploit…uh, I mean take advantage…of all you wonderful people out there to figure out what the heck I’m doing.

In this first article, I’m going to provide motivation on why performance per Watt, or something equivalent, is important. And I’m going to write it even if many (or most) of you think it’s obvious.

This brings up the flip side of blogging. A big advantage of being a blog reader is that you don’t have to listen to me repeat the apparently obvious or the boring.

So let’s have at it.