books.google.com.au - The era of seemingly unlimited growth in processor performance is over: single chip architectures can no longer overcome the performance limitations imposed by the power they consume and the heat they generate. Today, Intel and other semiconductor firms are abandoning the single fast processor model...http://books.google.com.au/books/about/Computer_Architecture.html?id=pqYl3SWkA64C&q=instruction-level+parallelism&utm_source=gb-gplus-shareComputer Architecture