Dennard scaling

Tag: dennard-scaling

Aliases: classical scaling

Robert Dennard's 1974 observation that if every linear MOSFET dimension and the supply voltage are shrunk by the same factor α, the per-chip power stays roughly constant while density and frequency rise. Held until the early 2000s when leakage broke the voltage-scaling assumption.

Lecture references

• L01 · Intro — p.14 , p.15 , p.17 , p.19