January 15, 2004 -- Many product road maps show process migration years down the road as a fait accompli. A process shrink alone, however, will not enable developers to keep pace with Moore's Law. Running a longer pipeline 40 percent faster will not result in a 40 percent increase in performance unless changes are made to the internal architecture to handle data and processing more efficiently.
By Ray Simar. (Ray Simar is chief architect at Texas Instruments, Inc.)
This brief introduction has been excerpted from the original copyrighted article.
