Patrick Moorhead, vice president of advanced marketing at Advanced Micro Devices, is a prolific blogger and tweeter about issues of concern to the chip maker. One of his biggest pet peeves is how battery life is measured in laptops, a topic that he thinks is going to become very hot.

Advanced Micro DevicesPatrick Moorhead, AMD's vice president of advanced marketingHow hot? Well, Moorhead predicts that if the industry doesn't come up with better ways to give consumers realistic estimates of battery life, the issue will be forced...