A Quiet Pivot: From Speed to Scale in Tech
The collapse of Dennard scaling around the mid-2000s forced a paradigm shift from faster single cores to more cores and specialized accelerators. AMD’s Zen (2017) popularized chiplet-based design, connecting multiple small dies via a central IO die to scale performance without expanding a single monolithic chip. This shift redefined CPU, GPU, and accelerator architectures for a decade and beyond.
