A New Golden Age in Computer Architecture: Empowering the Machine-Learning Revolution.

The end of Moores law and Dennard scaling has led to the end of rapid improvement in general-purpose program performance. Machine learning (ML), and in particular deep learning, is an attractive alternative for architects to explore. It has recently revolutionized vision, speech, language understanding, and many other fields, and it promises to help with the grand challenges facing our society. Th...