Amdahl's Law definitely came up in my undergrad CE/CS courses at USC. I'm not sure how you could teach a computer architecture or processor design class and not

Amdahl's Law definitely came up in my undergrad CE/CS courses at USC. I'm not sure how you could teach a computer architecture or processor design class and not mention it. And for what it's worth, we still covered C/C++ and assembly (MIPS + x86), in addition to Java.