A chip that controls a balancing propeller on seven microwatts
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The episode discusses the impact of analog-to-digital converters on battery life in various devices.
Send us Fan Mail Every battery-powered device you own has a quiet energy hog in it that nobody talks about. It is not the processor, it is not the radio, and it is not the screen. It is the analog-to-digital converter, the small piece of circuitry that translates the messy real world into the clean ones and zeros a computer can think about. For thirty years it has been the line item that decides how long your hearing aid, your pacemaker, or your soil sensor lasts on a battery. In March 2026, ...
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