Lower Power and Higher Performance Oct14 By Webmaster • Posted in Industry News October 14, 2016 Can you get both in the same chip? It used to be a classic trade-off: higher performance meant more power consumption, power savings meant slower chips. Not any more, says Ed Sperling in his latest article, Lower Power Plus Better Performance; new computer and chip architectures can deliver both. He points to 3D structure and memory that is closer to the processer — two of Tezzaron’s favorite things.