Intel demos real-time code compression for die shrinkage, power saving

Intel researchers have developed a way to make the increasingly tiny processors needed to power the impending “Internet of Things” even tinier: compress the code running on them.

“We compress the code, make it smaller, and save area and power of integrated on-die memory,” Intel Labs senior reseacher Sergey Kochuguev from ZAO Intel A/O in St. Petersburg, Russia, told The Reg at Tuesday’s Research@Intel shindig in San Francisco.