Why are energy prices rising and how should engineers respond?
Summary
In addition, current political events are driving up oil and gas prices and there are after-effects from the pandemic, including massively increased costs for services like shipping. For individuals, rising domestic utility bills and travelling costs may demand savings, such as lower spending on hobbies, activities, or food. At Anders, we are increasingly finding that customers want us to take an existing system design that is already working effectively and re-engineer it to deliver the same or better performance, using less power. With so much focus on energy, everywhere, there are numerous opportunities for engineers to save it in their designs: like using backlight timers to reduce dwell time (like on your phone); smarter processors not only allow many more reduced-power operating modes than their predecessors, but also now feature hardware accelerators that accomplish functions like cryptography more quickly and efficiently. Others are introducing AI, such as neural networks or decision trees, to handle workloads like facial or activity recognition extremely efficiently.