Software-Hardware Evolution and birth of Multicore Processors

Abstract

This paper presents a brief journey to the evolution of computer hardware and software, and underlines that shift to multicore technology is natual part of the evolution, and highlights the various laws governing the advancement of computer industry. Looking to these, it appears that the HW-SW industry trend can be represented by a mathematical model, for which future developments are predictable. Finally, the paper establishes that future of computer industry lies in more thrust in software to exploit parallelism available in software to utilize the heterogeneity in multicore processors.