Keynote 3

More than ten years ago, it was envisioned that the interconnects will be the limiters for continued increase in compute performance. Now we know that it´s not the interconnects but power and energy that have been the limiter. As technology scaling continues providing abundance of transistors, and new architectures to continue to deliver performance in a given power envelope, we need to revisit the role of interconnects. This talk will touch on technology outlook, future architectures and design directions for continued performance, and the role of interconnects-whether they will help or hinder!