68 Copublished by the IEEE CS and the AIP 1521-9615/10/$26.00 :copyright: 2010 IEEE Computing in SCienCe & engineeringS C I E n t I f I C P r o g r A m m I n gEditors: Konstantin Läufer, laufer@cs.luc.eduKonrad Hinsen, hinsen@cnrs-orleans.frWhy Modern CPUs Are stArving
And WhAt CAn Be done ABoUt it
By Francesc AltedA well-documented trend shows that CPU speeds are in-creasing at a faster rate than
memory speeds.1,2 Indeed, CPU per-
formance has now outstripped mem-
ory performance to the point
