Next-generation Architectures Must Become More Flexible to Meet the Inevitable Changes to Market and Customer
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0272-1732/00/$10.00 2000 IEEE Motivated by necessity, change is inevitable. The buggy whip manufacturer realized this on seeing a Ford Model A drive past. Until the late 18th century, circumnavigation of the globe was a near impossibility without an accurate way to measure longitude. It wasn’t until John Harrison dedicated most of his life to developing an accurate timepiece that the problem was solved. Is fundamental change also a necessity for the microprocessor? Or is there a need to require fundamental change? Where are microprocessors, microcontrollers, and computer systems headed in the new millennium?
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