Some time ago, a group of chip industry veterans pointed to a quandary facing the industry as we moved toward a billion transistors on a chip and beyond. They did not question the continuing march along the Moore's Law semi-log track for the next few years, which looked difficult but feasible. Their concern was: What could you do with all those transistors? Memory is never big enough, of course, but what about processors, logic, and auxiliary functions?
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