Hot Chips' Conference Preview

EETimes.com - Hot Chips' message: It's the bandwidth gives a head-up as to the themes to be presented at the August Hot Chips conference. The top problems designers face are

1. Managing power
2. Managing the memory bandwidth bottleneck

Here for the foreseeable future is a world of parallelism, of increasingly application-directed architectures and of an unending struggle for memory bandwidth rather than Mips.