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Foil 6 3 Classes of VLSI Design?

From Master Foilset for HPC Achitecture Overview CPS615 Introduction to Computational Science -- Fall Semester 1998. by Geoffrey C. Fox
1 How good is instruction-level parallelism?
2 Thread-level parallelism needed in future microprocessors to use available transistors?
3 Threads need classic coarse grain data or functional parallelism
4 transistors
5 Exponential Improvement is (an example of) Moore's Law
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