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Intel Announces Wake-Up On Demand For The PC
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Intel is introducing a new addition to its lines of motherboards, that will allow a incoming phone call to remotely wake up a computer from sleep mode. The chips will be incorporated in future offerings from companies that have opted to use the new chip. According to Intel the chip will:
The technology does what it says – it enables the home PC to ‘wake up’ for incoming VoIP calls, and remote media access to photos, videos and music over the internet.
What makes the Remote Wake capable motherboard beneficial is the ability for it to save energy, by not having to have the computer system fully on all of the time to receive VoIP calls.
More and more future computer systems will employ this new technology.
Comments welcome.
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Gavin
August 15th, 2008
at 7:19am
Interesting concept but if the computer is running xp will it wake up fast enough to answer the call before the caller hangs up.
Even when sleeping my computer takes a bit of time to wake up. Though I’m the same way in the mornings.