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ISCA
2011
IEEE
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12 years 8 months ago
Dark silicon and the end of multicore scaling
Since 2005, processor designers have increased core counts to exploit Moore’s Law scaling, rather than focusing on single-core performance. The failure of Dennard scaling, to wh...
Hadi Esmaeilzadeh, Emily R. Blem, Renée St....
DAC
2012
ACM
11 years 6 months ago
Is dark silicon useful?: harnessing the four horsemen of the coming dark silicon apocalypse
Due to the breakdown of Dennardian scaling, the percentage of a silicon chip that can switch at full frequency is dropping exponentially with each process generation. This utiliza...
Michael B. Taylor