Session 15 overview / high-performance digital: High-performance SoCs & components
Shannon Morton, Lew Chua-Eoan · 2011
Summary form only given. Integration rules. Why? Here's why. The number of transistors available on a die continues to grow in line with Moore's law. In the previous decade, designers hit a wall in terms of how to make a single core processor utilize the available transistors efficiently. So they added larger caches. When the performance advantages of these caches flat-lined, they added multiple processor cores. This trend has dominated the industry for many years. Until now. A revolutionary shift is underway.