It's kind of like how many angels can you fit on the head of a pin?

Variability increases as geometries shrink. Leakage power varies five to 10 times. Frequency varies about 30 percent.

Clearly the momentum around multi-core is building.

Now we're looking at power in the rest of the platform. The CPU is in relatively good shape.

We are really focused on minimizing energy per instruction. That's the new mantra.

We really need to get to a point where the systems support the users, rather than users supporting the systems.

We need to design our systems to fit within this set of thermal envelopes.