Session 4 overview / high-performance digital: Enterprise processors & components

Summary form only given. Session 4 focuses on significant new innovations in the development of enterprise class microprocessors. This year's enterprise designs feature the fastest clock frequency, the highest x86 core count, and the highest energy efficiency, and the highest transistor count ever achieved in commercial microprocessors. The trend of dramatically increasing the number of threads, special function units, and off-die interconnect contained within a single die also continues. These designs from IBM, Intel, AMD, and the Chinese Academy of Sciences also employ a variety of power-efficient circuit and micro-architectural techniques to continue Moore's Law in the face of the dramatic power challenge plaguing deep submicron technology.