DocumentCode
992583
Title
Microprocessors circa 2000
Author
Gelsinger, Patrick P. ; Gargini, Paolo A. ; Parker, Gerhard H. ; Yu, Albert Y C
Author_Institution
Intel Corp., Santa Clara, CA, USA
Volume
26
Issue
10
fYear
1989
Firstpage
43
Lastpage
47
Abstract
The authors examine the trends that they believe will lead to microprocessors with a projected 50 million transistors on a die measuring 1 in/sup 2/ which could incorporate multiple processors with an aggregate performance of over 2000 million instructions per second (MIPS). They propose a new law of computing and semiconductors: ´every concept proved useful in mainframe or minicomputers has migrated or will migrate onto the microprocessor´. They discuss developments that break systems bottlenecks, increased performance demands, increasing speed, reliability challenges, interconnection problems, and design and test issues.<>
Keywords
microprocessor chips; technological forecasting; 2000 MIPS; computing; interconnection problems; microprocessors; multiple processors; reliability; semiconductors; transistors; Aggregates; Bandwidth; Cache memory; Computer graphics; Delay; Information retrieval; Memory management; Microcomputers; Microprocessor chips; Pipeline processing;
fLanguage
English
Journal_Title
Spectrum, IEEE
Publisher
ieee
ISSN
0018-9235
Type
jour
DOI
10.1109/6.40684
Filename
40684
Link To Document