Summary

This chapter presented several computer system architectures tailored to particular user needs and identified some key features associated with each of them. We looked at application categories including smartphones, gaming-focused personal computers, warehouse-scale computing, and neural networks. These examples provided a connection between the more theoretical discussions of computer and systems architectures and components presented in earlier chapters and the real-world implementations of modern, high-performance computing systems.

Having completed this chapter, you should understand the decision processes used in defining computer architectures to support specific user needs. You have gained insight into the key requirements driving smart mobile device architectures, high-performance personal computing architectures, warehouse-scale cloud-computing architectures, and advanced machine learning architectures.

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