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The Multi-core/Concurrency Era

 The envisaged solution for these problems is:

 Use the silicon estate to put more processors on the same die
 More area/power efficient
 Scale the processor without complex designs
 Shift the focus to extracting Thread Level Parallelism (TLP)

Currently “throughput programming”

Per ~ Area Per ~ √Area

Power Perf. Power

Perf.

Power Perf.

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