February 2013 - Vol. 56 No. 2

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Features

Research and Advances Research highlights

Power Challenges May End the Multicore Era

Tthe microprocessor industry has shifted to multicore scaling as its principal strategy for continuing performance growth. However, while transistor count increases continue, the per-transistor speed and energy efficiency improvements have slowed dramatically. 

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