Question

Why is dark silicon currently necessary?

Answer 1

Answer:

Architects have initiated several efforts in leveraging the Dark Silicon to design application-specific and accelerator-rich architectures.Recently, researchers have explored how Dark Silicon exposes new challenges and opportunities for the EDA community. In particular, they have demonstrated the thermal, reliability (soft error and aging), and process variation concerns for Dark Silicon many-core processors.

- EDA is  Electronic Design Automation -