Impact of Moore’s Law
Increased number of transistors, increased clock rate and improved architecture has dramatically enhanced total microprocessor performance over past decade
By 2010 architectures with a billion transistors per chip, clock rates > 10 GHz and nearly a trillion instructions per second will be considered. Multi-threading and multiple-processor architectures on a single-chip will be adopted to increase throughput and number of operations per second
Dramatically increased power consumption and significant bandwidth performance demands imposed at the platform level