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→Demise of Single-Core and Rise of Multi-Core Systems
As manufacturing processes evolved in accordance with Moore’s Law which saw the size of a transistor shrink, it allowed for the number of transistors packed onto a single processor die (the physical silicon chip itself) to double roughly every two years. This enabled the available space on a processor die to grow, allowing more cores to fit on it than before. This led to an increased demand in thread-level parallelism which many applications benefitted from and were better suited for. The addition of multiple cores on a processor also increased the system's overall parallel computing capabilities.
[[File:Moore law graph.png|thumb|none|500px|Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Moore%27s_Law_Transistor_Count_1971-2018.png]]
[[File:Single v multi.png|thumb|none|500px|Source: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/332614728/figure/fig5/AS:751235892269058@1556120002090/Memory-management-of-single-core-and-multi-core-systems.png]]
=== Developments in the first Multi-Core Processors ===
