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The development during the last 15 years in single-chip computers has been striking. It is a development that I have followed in detail, and some of you may have heard me talk about it before. It started in 1989 when a desktop computer first outperformed the most powerful minicomputer on the market, namely the VAX 8600. The desktop computer in question was a workstation based on a processor chip developed and marketed by the MIPS Computer Company, of which Professor John Hennessy of Stanford University was a leading light. Subsequent developments were very rapid and led to the demise of the minicomputer as we used to know it and to love it.
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Wilkes, M.V. (2007). High Performance Processor Chips. In: Stenström, P. (eds) Transactions on High-Performance Embedded Architectures and Compilers I. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 4050. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-71528-3_1
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