Despite the Nay-Sayers to the Contrary, Moore's Law is Alive and Well and Still Providing Opportunities

by Yale Patt
The University of Texas at Austin

Abstract:

In a few years, process technology is promising more than one billion transistors on a single silicon die, and some of us are looking at how to harness those transistors to form higher and higher performance general purpose microprocessors. But for every one who is trying to solve the problem, it seems like there are many who are saying (a) it can't be done, or (b) it is not worth doing. In this talk, we will examine the reasons the nay-sayers are offering for "why we have reached the end of our rope," and their suggestions for what we should do instead. I hope to persuade you that once again, and has happened many times in the past, computer architecture is alive and well, and the nay-sayers are writing our obituary prematurely.


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