David Patterson - A New Golden Age for Computer Architecture: History, Challenges and Opportunities

Name: David Patterson - A New Golden Age for Computer Architecture: History, Challenges and Opportunities
Description: David Patterson's talk on the history of computer architecture, from RISC and superscalar designs to the end of Dennard scaling and Moore's Law. It argues that domain-specific architectures and open instruction sets open a new golden age.

UBC Computer Science

David Patterson's talk on the history of computer architecture, from RISC and superscalar designs to the end of Dennard scaling and Moore's Law. It argues that domain-specific architectures and open instruction sets open a new golden age.

Recommended, including by Chris Lattner, as a history of CPU architecture and why performance gains slowed.

3 Hacker News mentions · 2021–2023

Topics

Computer architecture & CPUs
History of computing

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