6. Concluding remarks
Computer architectures continue to use paradigms and techniques that have been around for decades: Von Neuman's model is still dominant, and techniques such as pipelining, pipelined and superscalar execution, caches, virtual memory, etc. have been in use for a very long time.
However, several phenomena are causing significant changes:
the wall of heat has replaced the search for raw performance with performance/watt and control of power and energy consumption has become the key issue;
the computer, whether visible or invisible (embedded systems), is no longer the central element. The Internet and all it entails - massive data and the Internet of Things, for example - mean that computers are increasingly becoming components of embedded and mobile systems, rather than their traditional...
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