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Microprocessors — 10 Years Back, 10 Years Ahead

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Continuing improvements in semiconductor technology — as characterized by Moore’s law — have provided computer architects with an increasing number of faster ransistors with which to build microprocessors. In the past decade, architects have seized these opportunities to build microprocessors that bear litle resemblance to the microprocessors of the 1970s and 1980s. With Moore ’s law projected to hold beyond the next decade,microprocessor architects will have even larger transistor budgets with which to build innovative microproces sors; the microprocessor circa 2010 is likely to bear little resemblance to today ’s microprocessor.

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Sohi, G.S. (2001). Microprocessors — 10 Years Back, 10 Years Ahead. In: Wilhelm, R. (eds) Informatics. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 2000. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-44577-3_14

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