Trends in CMOS technology point to an era of high-performance microprocessor design in which problems such as power consumption and cooling, deviceand chip-level variability, and hard and soft errors threaten to slow down historically established performance growth rates.
Citation:
Pradip Bose, "Integrated microarchitectures," IEEE Micro, vol. 25, no. 3, pp. 5-6, May/June 2005, doi:10.1109/MM.2005.47