Guest Editors' Introduction: Hot Chips 17

Guest Editors John Sell and Alan Jay Smith talk about what went into the presentation of IEEE Micro's Hot Chips 17 issue.     

Guest Editors' Introduction: Hot Chips 18

Over its 18-year history, the Hot Chips conference has become a leading forum for the latest computing, communications, and networking chips. The conference covers a variety of technical details about these chips, including technology, fundamental algorithms, packaging techniques, architecture, and circuit details. This issue features six of the best presentations from Hot Chips 18, expanded to full articles. Topics include multiprocessor/multicore systems, embedded processing, and low-power processing.     

Guest Editors' Introduction: Hot Interconnects 12

Hot Interconnects is an annual conference that specializes in state-of-the-art hardware and software architectures, and implementations of interconnection networks of all scales, ranging from on-chip, processor-memory interconnects to wide-area networks. It is the event where the high-performance computing and high-speed networking communities meet, and has a wide attendance both from industry and academia. Hot Interconnects 12 convened from 25 to 27 August 2004 at Stanford University; it included two days of paper sessions and one day of tutorials. Sponsored by the IEEE Computer Society Technical Committee on Microprocessors and Microcomputers, Hot Interconnects also has technical cosponsorship from the IEEE Communications Society Technical Committees on High-Speed Networking and Communications Switching and Routing.     

Guest Editors' Introduction

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