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But 200 milliwatts per square meter is not a lot of juice: enough to charge a mobile phone, maybe, or keep an LED nightlight going—or, perhaps, serve as a power source for sensors or irrigation switches.
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IEEE Spectrum, 25 June 2024
The company also demonstrated a custom chip that handled an even larger logical qubit, while only occupying a tiny fraction of a square millimeter and consuming just 8 milliwatts of power.
—John Timmer, Ars Technica, 9 July 2024
Lasers sold for pointing purposes legally can’t exceed 5 milliwatts.
—Catherine Allen, NBC News, 31 Jan. 2024
That will mean a significant jump in laser power compared to the 250 milliwatts or so needed for Quera's current hardware.
—John Timmer, Ars Technica, 9 Jan. 2024
Apple silicon can reduce idle power draw to as little as 200 milliwatts.
—IEEE Spectrum, 9 Nov. 2023
So little power, in fact, just to be on an event camera consumes one milliwatt, on average, because in fact, the power consumption depends on the dynamics of the scene.
—IEEE Spectrum, 3 Oct. 2023
Whereas other techniques demand an operating power of roughly 1.5 to 4 watts, the new method requires only an average power of 400 milliwatts to operate 2,000 foci.
—IEEE Spectrum, 7 Apr. 2023
Power efficiency in terms of frames per second per milliwatt.
—Anshel Sag, Forbes, 30 Aug. 2021
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IEEE Spectrum, 25 June 2024
The company also demonstrated a custom chip that handled an even larger logical qubit, while only occupying a tiny fraction of a square millimeter and consuming just 8 milliwatts of power.
—John Timmer, Ars Technica, 9 July 2024
Lasers sold for pointing purposes legally can’t exceed 5 milliwatts.
—Catherine Allen, NBC News, 31 Jan. 2024
That will mean a significant jump in laser power compared to the 250 milliwatts or so needed for Quera's current hardware.
—John Timmer, Ars Technica, 9 Jan. 2024
Apple silicon can reduce idle power draw to as little as 200 milliwatts.
—IEEE Spectrum, 9 Nov. 2023
So little power, in fact, just to be on an event camera consumes one milliwatt, on average, because in fact, the power consumption depends on the dynamics of the scene.
—IEEE Spectrum, 3 Oct. 2023
Whereas other techniques demand an operating power of roughly 1.5 to 4 watts, the new method requires only an average power of 400 milliwatts to operate 2,000 foci.
—IEEE Spectrum, 7 Apr. 2023
Power efficiency in terms of frames per second per milliwatt.
—Anshel Sag, Forbes, 30 Aug. 2021
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milliwatt
noun
mil·li·watt
ˈmil-ə-ˌwät 
: one thousandth of a watt
—abbreviation mW
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