**Intelligence per Watt: A Unified Metric for the AI Era**

> 01 Vision Statement From 1946 to 2009, computing efficiency—performance per watt—doubled every 1.5 years. This trend, documented by Koomey and colleagues, transformed where computing could happen. Workloads migrated from mainframe rooms to desktops, then laptops, then pockets. The transition from centralized time-sharing to personal computing didn't occur because PCs surpassed mainframes in raw performance. It occurr...

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- **来源**：Hacker News：AI 热帖
- **分类**：论文
- **发布时间**：2026-06-26 17:26（北京时间）
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