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A key question for the microprocessor research and design community is whether scaling multicores will provide the performance and value needed to scale down many more technology generations. To provide a quantitative answer to this question, a comprehensive study that projects the speedup potential of future multicores and examines the underutilization of integration capacity—dark silicon—is timely and crucial.
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Esmaeilzadeh et al. (2012) studied this question.
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