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Technical Perspective: Is Dark Silicon Real?

By Pradip Bose
Communications of the ACM, February 2013, Vol. 56 No. 2, Page 92
10.1145/2408776.2408796
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The microprocessor chip R&D community has been well aware of the so-called "power wall" challenge for over a decade. The following work by Esmaeilzadeh et al. is a landmark paper that opens our eyes to the unrelenting power challenge we face in the multicore era.

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