On Fri, 2006-03-10 at 20:28 +0200, Peter wrote:
> On Fri, 10 Mar 2006, Michael Rigby-Jones wrote:
> > I think you are comparing apples and oranges anyway, devices that need 
> > to drive long cables at high speed do tend to have high power 
> > requirements.
> 
> Only while sending.

Nope. More while sending yes, but even idle the analog portion of a PHY
capable of dealing with long lines can consume a good amount of power.

That's why alot of power saving these days actually deals with shutting
power off to parts of chips. Stopping the clocks no longer helps as much
as it used to.

TTYL

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