General Technology Trends
- Microprocessor performance increases 50% - 100% per year
- Transistor count doubles every 3 years
- DRAM size quadruples every 3 years
- Huge $ investment per generation is carried by commodity PC market
Note that “simple” single-processor performance is plateauing, but that parallelism is a natural way to improve it. But many different forms of parallelism “Data or Thread Parallel” or “Automatic Instruction Parallel”
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