BIB-VERSION:: CS-TR-v2.0
          ID:: STAN//CSL-TR-97-745
       ENTRY:: August 3, 1999 
ORGANIZATION:: Stanford University, Computer Systems Laboratory
       TITLE:: Selection of Recent Advances in Computer Systems 
        TYPE:: Technical Report
      AUTHOR:: Mencer, Oskar
      AUTHOR:: Flynn, Michael
        DATE:: July 1999 
       PAGES:: 21
    ABSTRACT:: This paper presents a selection of recent research results in
               computer systems. The roadmap for CMOS technology for the
               next ten years shows a theoretical limit of 0.1 um for the
               channel of a MOSFET transistor, reached by 2007. Mainstream
               processors are adapting to multimedia applications with
               subword parallel instructions like Intel's MMX or HP's MAX
               instruction set extensions. Coprocessors and embedded
               processors are moving towards VLIW in order to save hardware
               costs. The memory system of the future is going to be the
               next generation of Rambus/RDRAM. Finally, Custom Computing
               Machines based on Field Programmable Gate Arrays are on of
               the promising future technologies for computing -- offering
               very high performance for highly parallelizable and
               pipelinable applications.
       NOTES:: [Adminitrivia V1/Prg/19980121]
         END:: STAN//CSL-TR-97-745