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An Overview of Idle States in the POWER9 Processor

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An Overview of Idle States in the POWER9 Processor

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Power Management is a trade-off  between how quickly the work is done (performance) versus how much power it takes to do the work (energy). It is about saving power in conjunction with optimizing performance under multiple system constraints like thermal envelopes and power delivery limitations.

An Overview of Idle States in the POWER9 Processor

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