MICHAEL TAYLOR

Prof. Taylor leads the Bespoke Silicon Group. See the link for his team's latest and greatest! Taylor was lead architect of the 16-core MIT Raw tiled multicore processor, one of the earliest multicore processors, which was commercialized into the Tilera TILE64 architecture. Recently, in 2017, Intel Skylake SP has adopted a similar scalable mesh of cores architecture that he proposed. He co-authored the earliest published architecture research on dark silicon, including a paper that derives the utilization wall that causes dark silicon, and a prototype massively specialized processor called GreenDroid. Taylor also wrote a paper that establishes the definitive taxonomy, the Four Horsemen, for the semiconductor industry's approaches to dealing with the problem, and a follow-on paper on the Landscape of the Dark Silicon Design Regime. Taylor's research on dark silicon fed into the ITRS 2008 report that led Mike Mueller of ARM to coin the term "dark silicon". More recently Taylor's group has taped out a series of FinFet chips with thousands of general purpose cores. He received a Ph.D. from MIT.