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
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;
Journal_Title :
Spectrum, IEEE
