num_pages: 704
description: The era of seemingly unlimited growth in processor performance is over: single chip architectures can no longer overcome the performance limitations imposed by the power they consume and the heat they generate. Today, Intel and other semiconductor firms are abandoning the single fast processor model in favor of multi-core microprocessors--chips that combine two or more processors in a single package. In the fourth edition of Computer Architecture , the authors focus on this historic shift, increasing their coverage of multiprocessors and exploring the most effective ways of achieving parallelism as the key to unlocking the power of multiple processor architectures. Additionally, the new edition has expanded and updated coverage of design topics beyond processor performance, including power, reliability, availability, and dependability.
language: English
title: Computer Architecture: A Quantitative Approach
titlecomplete: Computer Architecture: A Quantitative Approach
genres: Technology, Computer Science, Computers, Textbooks, Reference, Technical, Nonfiction, Software, Programming, Engineering
ratings_count: 1074
publisher: Morgan Kaufmann