19th Hot Chips Conference Meets on 19–21 August at Stanford University, Three days of Leading-Edge, Real-World Designs for High-performance Chips and Technologies

Three days of Leading-Edge, Real-World Designs for High-performance Chips and Technologies Newly cosponsored by SSCS this year, Hot Chips will offer nine technical sessions on topics such as the ultra-fast IBM Power6, the architecture of the NVIDIA GeForce 8800 chip, and Multi-terabit switch fabrics, a well as a panel entitled "What\´s next beyond CMOS?" Keynote speakers will be Vernor Vinge, a computer scientist and Hugo-award-winning science fiction writer, and Phil Hester who will speak on "Multi-Core and Beyond: Evolving the X86 Architecture."