Intel ® Processor and Platform Evolution for the Next Decade Executive Summary

Without a doubt, computing has made great strides in recent years. But as much as it has advanced in the last ten years, in the coming decade, the emergence and migration of new workloads and usage models to mainstream computing will put enormous demands on future computing platforms: demands for much higher performance, for much lower power density and for greatly expanded functionality. Given these seismic shifts in the uses of computing, how we define and architect future computing platforms will have to change dramatically, holistically comprehending and satisfying not only computation, but interface and infrastructure requirements as well. Intel’s long-range vision for the evolution of these three fundamental platform elements, and the architectural innovation and core competencies enabling that evolution, is what we call Platform 2015. In addition to examining relevant trends and usages and their platform processing implications, this paper will focus on the computational element of Platfor