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[โ€“] tetris11@feddit.uk 4 points 5 hours ago* (last edited 5 hours ago) (1 children)

We have phones doubling as alarm clocks to thank for the technological gains in RTC (realtime clock) chips, and deeper CPU sleep states.

All new chips have robust sleep options these days because phones needed to be reliable alarm clocks when "off".

Efficient RTC chips with alarm pins, born out of that chaotic era

[โ€“] goldfndr@lemmy.ml 1 points 43 minutes ago

We should also thank Network Time Protocol. And if wireless carriers are using something else, perhaps that too.