Vector Microprocessors for Desktop Computing

Desktop workloads are expected to shift over the next few years to become increasingly mediacentric.These multimedia applications require much larger computational demands than current desktopprocessors can provide. In this paper, we describe four major requirements that we believe any effectivedesktop processor should address: it should meet the performance requirements of desktop workloads,it should exploit advances in VLSI fabrication technology to provide this performance, it should ...