Ms Sophie Wilson FREng FRS
will speak about
The Future of Microprocessors
on 26th of January 2017, 11am, Rayleigh seminar room, 2nd floor, Maxwell Centre
Sophie Wilson, gives an overview of the history of processors and what to expect in future. The presentation covers in layman’s terms topics like Moore’s law, Amdahl's law, pipe lining, parallelism, power consumption, heat dissipation, processor specialization among other things. As explained, all those aspects are facing difficult challenges that are likely to shape the future of microprocessors, which in turns impacts both hardware and software engineers.
Find out more about the speaker: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sophie_Wilson
This talk is a part of the Laboratory for Scientific Computing series. If you have a question about this talk, please contact Louise Mortimer.