Conventional Microprocessor Unit Performance Path

Conventional Microprocessor Unit Performance Path

Assumes:

* 100% efficient utilization

* SIA Growth in Clock Rate

* Growth in instruction issue parallelism

In 2004 technology (for 2007 machine)

160,000 such processors gives 1 PF peak.

Problem: each requires caches, memory, I/O!

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