A Look Back at 20 Years of Hot Chip Conferences

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Channel: IEEE Spectrum · 2008 · Science & Technology

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This year's Hot Chip conference was the 20th time industry all-stars gathered to discuss high-performance microprocessors, and IEEE Spectrum was there to look back at two decades of predictions about the future. General-purpose graphics processing units were the big topic this year, but what seems inevitable today may seem silly in a couple of years. For more, see "Confessions of a Hot Chips n00b"  (http://blogs.spectrum.ieee.org/tech_talk/2008/09/confessions_of_a_hot_chips_n00.html)

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