Monster Chip like Monster Home? “ what San Franciscans have come to know as a monster home--a 6,000-square- foot behemoth that would tower five stories high, casting neighbors in its shadow and stretching clear to its lot lines.” “San Franciscans Fight Monster Home Invasion,” LA Times, 7/13/00 Bay Area cities using ordinances to stop them Era of wretched excess, homes & chips branch prediction buffers bigger than minicomputer memory! Sustaining Moore’s Law vs. MIPS/$? monster 2/5/01

Sustaining Moore’s Law vs. MIPS/$? Intel MPU die RISC II die Scaled RISC II about 1/1000th size of current MPU monster 2/5/01

Sub 1mm2 MPU core as building block (32-bit RISC MPU as the Nand gate) Alternative universe Inspiration: Google Search engine for world (20% more queries/month) Economical, scalable build block: PC today 6000 PCs, 12000 disks (1 petabyte) Sub 1mm2 MPU core as building block (32-bit RISC MPU as the Nand gate) Special purpose chips with 100s of economical MPUs vs. Monster MPUs “Cluster on a chip” enable amazing MIPS/$, MIPS/watt for applications monster 2/5/01