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Computer engineering

the rule that shrinking transistor dimensions and voltages together keeps power density constant while speed rises.

In computer engineering, Dennard scaling refers to the rule that shrinking transistor dimensions and voltages together keeps power density constant while speed rises. This meaning comes from Dennard (1974) in IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits.[1]

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Dennard, R. H., Gaensslen, F. H., Yu, H., Rideout, V. L., Bassous, E., & LeBlanc, A. R. (1974). Design of ion-implanted MOSFET's with very small physical dimensions. IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits, 9(5), 256-268. https://doi.org/10.1109/jssc.1974.1050511

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