Computing With Billion Transistor Chips

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  • Guri Sohi
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The goal of more powerful computers is to enable more demanding applications. I will not venture to take a guess at what will be the dominant "killer applications" for billion transistor chips. Historically new applications have arisen as computers became more powerful; I expect the future to be no different. New applications will continue to demand more and more computing power. The problem of computing is then one of determining how to provide a desired level of computing power given the available technologies.

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تاریخ انتشار 1997