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The Next Big Innovation in Microprocessors: Anant Agarwal (Part 7)

Posted on Sunday, Aug 26th

SM: This is a radical redesign, and it seems it should be advantageous in other areas as well, right? AA: True. The other beauty of the mesh is that not only does it solve the performance problem, it also really addresses the power problem. A bus is a big centralized structure, and any big centralized

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The Next Big Innovation in Microprocessors: Anant Agarwal (Part 3)

Posted on Wednesday, Aug 22nd

SM: What came after Alewife and VMW? AA: I did VMW in 1994 – 1995, and in 1996 I came back to MIT. I started the Raw effort in 1996. Looking at processor design, we felt that in another 10 years we would have chips with billions of transistors and we wanted to discover how

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