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Architecture translates technology's gifts to performance and capability
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Resolves the tradeoff between parallelism and locality
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Current microprocessor: 1/3 compute, 1/3 cache, 1/3 off-chip connect
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Tradeoffs may change with scale and technology advances
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Four generations of architectural history: tube, transistor, IC, VLSI
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Here focus only on VLSI generation
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Future generations COULD be Quantum and Superconducting technology
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Greatest delineation within VLSI generation has been in type of parallelism exploited
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