Session 4 overview: Processors: High-performance digital subcommittee

As compute power is increasingly migrating to large data centers and the cloud, microprocessors face progressively more stringent design constraints. This year\´s processor session introduces three new "big iron" processors in 22nm/20nm technology providing higher performance and power efficiency. Increasing core counts and cache sizes, with adaptive power management techniques, are applied to optimize performance/W. A high-density microserver computing node is optimized for Big Data and shows its capability in handling a large number of threads. For future intelligent computing, such as deep learning and inference, a specialized processor is demonstrated. Other papers in this session describe adaptive techniques, as well as design optimizations to improve throughput and energy efficiency.