EBL Working Group Releases Display Power Measurement Recommendations

Recommendations Simplify Power Measurements and Reporting

SAN JOSE, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--September 17, 2003--The Mobile PC Extended Battery Life Working Group (EBL-WG) has released recommendations to enable uniform and consistent power measurement of display subsystems across the mobile PC LCD industry. The Display Subsystem Power Measurement Recommendations address the measurement of panel electronics power, backlight power and screen luminance, as well as the use of appropriate color patterns, ambient room conditions and a suggested list of equipment.

Displays typically make up a significant portion of power consumed by a mobile PC. As the industry works to reduce mobile PC power consumption, the display subsystem should keep pace with this trend. The Display Subsystem Power Measurement Recommendations are designed to assist mobile PC LCD vendors and mobile PC makers by providing common procedures for the measurements of this critical subsystem's power consumption.

"These recommendations emphasize the importance the industry places on the display power consumption in mobile PCs and accurate reporting of it," said Kamal Shah of Intel Corporation and chairman of the Mobile PC EBL-WG. "This is the first time the major mobile PC manufacturers and designers have come together to provide power measurement recommendations to display subsystem suppliers. These recommendations will help to promote consistency among display vendors and will contribute to the drive toward display subsystems of three watts or lower power consumption."

"The group working on the recommendations had the interests of both the display vendors and the mobile PC makers in mind," said Simon Shih of Quanta Computer and the EBL Working Group's Suppliers Recommendations subgroup chairman. "We have created a document that will promote the adoption of common power measurements and reporting. It is much simpler than anything that was available before, and should drive the vendors of other subsystems to follow the suit."

The Display Subsystem Power Measurement Recommendations document is available on the EBL-WG Web site. A list of mobile PC display panels at three watts or less measured using these recommendations will be available on the EBL-WG website.

About Mobile PC EBL-WG

The Mobile PC Extended Battery Life Working Group (EBL-WG) is a worldwide, industry-wide group of companies working together to extend the battery life of mobile PCs. Current members of the EBL Work Group include Acer, ASUSTeK Computer, Compal Electronics, Dell, First International Computer, Fujitsu, Hewlett Packard, Intel, Inventec, Legend , LG Electronics, Matsushita Electric Industrial (Panasonic), Microsoft, NEC, Quanta Computer, Samsung Electronics, Toshiba and Wistron. For more information about the EBL-WG, visit the EBL-WG web site at http://www.eblwg.org/.