• 2000s: Special purpose architecture, functionally reconfigurable,special considerations for low power/mobile processing, chip multiprocessors, memory systems
  • Massive SIMD
  • Parallel processing multiprocessor

Under a rapidly changing set of forces, computer technology keeps at dramatic change, for example:

• Processor clock rate at about 20% increase a year
                        
• Logic capacity at about 30% increase a year
                             
• Memory speed at about 10% increase a year
                    
• Memory capacity at about 60% increase a year
                        
• Cost per bit improves about 25% a year
                          
• The disk capacity increase at 60% a year.