In
certain sorting and ejection systems for large piece sorting applications (e.g. whole vegetables and whole fruit), the choice to use a sorter that is fitted with finger ejection (such as the TOMRA 5A), as opposed to air ejection, significantly reduces the use
of compressed air, which improves the overall energy
efficiency of a food
processing line.
IBM's million - neuron TrueNorth chip, revealed in prototype in August 2014, has a power
efficiency for
certain tasks that is hundreds
of times superior to a conventional CPU (central
processing unit), and more comparable for the first time to the human cortex.