Mobile PC Extended Battery Life Working Group An informational overview

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Mobile PC ExtendedBattery Life Working
GroupAn informational overview
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Mobile PC EBL Working Group

• Announced Oct 16,2002, Taipei, Taiwan
• Support for the Mobile PC EBL Working Group

• Acer Inc.
• ASUSTeK Computer Inc.
• Compal Electronics Inc.
• Dell Computer Corporation
• First International Computer Inc.
• Fujitsu Limited
• Inventec Corporation
• Intel Corporation
• IBM Corporation
• Legend Holdings Ltd.

• LG Electronics Inc.
• Matsushita Electric Industrial Co. Ltd.
  (Panasonic)
• Microsoft Corporation.
• NEC Corporation
• Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.
• Toshiba Corporation
• Quanta Computer Inc.
• Wistron Corporation

Cutting the Last Wire
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Battery life definition and usage models

• Goals
• Define and agree on upcoming/emerging mobile PC
  usage models
• Define and agree on battery life definition and
  number of hours for a given year in number of
  hours or a different metric( 8 hours for 2004, 12
  hours for 2005, or a different metric, etc.)
• Work with benchmarking organizations to help
  create accurate battery life benchmarks and
  create awareness among consumers and enterprise
  buyers
• Deliverables
• Publish battery life definition and yearly
  targets agreed to by the group
• Publish usage model research results. (Conducted
  by group members or sponsored.)
• Proliferate the usage models to benchmarking
  organizations for benchmark development i.e.
  ensure development of benchmarks that reflect
  these usage models
• Develop and publish guidelines on Battery Life
  metric usage that is widely adopted and used
  consistently and uniformly by the industry

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Component and subsystem power consumption
guidelines

• Goals
• Provide power measurement and power-saving
  guidelines to the suppliers of components and
  subsystems for the mobile PC.
• Initial focus is the display and storage
  subsystem
• Deliverables
• Publish display brightness guidelines based on(
  end user market research, OEM/Panel maker
  surveys, other) and develop consensus among EBL
  WG member companies for the same. 
• Publish display power measurement guidelines and
  develop consensus among EBL WG member companies
  for the same. 
• Develop consensus among group members towards the
  goal of delivering 3W display for 2004/2005 Thin
  and Light mobile PCs
• Demonstrate power savings realized through use of
  matched inverter/panel for Thin and Light mobile
  PCs and publish results.
• Develop matched inverter/panel proposal/guideline
  and develop consensus among EBL WG member
  companies for the same
• Develop HDD roadmap with a focus on reduced power
  consumption

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Power sources

• Goals
• Identify new sources of power for the mobile PC
  and ensure adequate eco system and regulatory
  support. 
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• Deliverables
• Identify/research and develop "realistic" micro
  fuel cell power sources roadmap for mobile PC
• Identify/research regulatory roadmap as well as
  eco system development roadmap for micro fuel
  cell.       
• Develop and deliver specification for mobile PC
  fuel containers ( universal fuel cartridge)

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Power management profiles

• Goals
• Develop guidelines for easy to use, intuitive
  power management profiles/mechanisms.
• Deliverables
• Identify and document the limitations of existing
  power management profiles in mobile PCs.
• Research possible solutions and develop
  guidelines.