Practical performance/power alternatives within an existing CMOS technology generation

The tremendous demand for advanced microprocessors is making developers offer a superior product at a competitive price which meets specific performance, power, and reliability requirements. Today’s products are designed and built with essentially the same design, fabrication, and test tools used by all industry manufacturers and are constrained by the same device physics, package impedance, heat dissipation capability, and battery energy density limitations. In addition, the current technology generation presents a new set of difficult challenges for the treatment of power dissipation.

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