Artificial Intelligence is forcing the most fundamental rethink of computing since the invention of the microprocessor. As traditional architectures approach their physical limits, a new computing frontier is emerging—one shaped by heterogeneous systems, specialized accelerators, advanced memory technologies, chiplets, photonics, quantum computing, and software-defined intelligence.

Drawing on more than three decades of experience across enterprise technology, engineering, manufacturing, and semiconductor ecosystems, Srini Subramanian examines not only where computing is headed, but why its architecture must fundamentally change.

Rather than viewing AI as merely another software revolution, this book argues that intelligence is becoming a systems problem—requiring innovation across silicon, memory, interconnects, energy, software, and economic models.

The Compute Frontier provides executives, researchers, engineers, technology leaders, and students with a first-principles framework for understanding the next era of computation and the forces that will shape it.