Technology impacts from the new wave of architectures for media-rich workloads

As the growth in rich graphical and multi-media workloads begins to dominate the compute cycles of our next-generation processors, a revolution in architecture is taking place to efficiently deal with them. This revolution involves the synergistic combination of parallel and serial computation elements on-die. This co-location makes for a rapidly evolving set of technology challenges. With power limits front and center, the need for efficient, dense logic with high-bandwidth interconnect makes the computing industry more dependent than ever on continuing VLSI technology improvements. This talk will explore these trends and the implications for next-generation process development.