Cleverer 'caches' management could improve computer chips' performance, reduce energy consumption
Wednesday, February 19, 2014 - 07:40
in Physics & Chemistry
Computer chips keep getting faster because transistors keep getting smaller. But the chips themselves are as big as ever, so data moving around the chip, and between chips and main memory, has to travel just as far. As transistors get faster, the cost of moving data becomes, proportionally, a more severe limitation.