Microprocessors in the year 2000
Ian A. Young, Randy Bell, John LeRoy Hennessy, Jun Iwamura, R.L. Mansfield, Fred J. Pollack, Robert M. Supnik · 1993
A panel-session summary on future trends in the area of microprocessors is presented. One of the suggestions is that, by 2000, a single-chip microprocessor will be either a complete system or a multiprocessor. The integration of further system function onto a single-chip provides lower cost and higher performance and is an obvious direction. Another suggestion is that the leading-edge microprocessor in 2000 will be an 8-way superscaler RISC (reduced instruction set computer) chip, with a clock rate of 750 MHz, implemented in 0.25 mu m (feature size), 2.5 V, 4-layer-metal CMOS technology. Using advanced compiler techniques, it will deliver more than 2000 sustained MIPS.>