Systems and methods for thermal management of multilayered integrated circuits

Non-transitory computer storage that stores executable program instructions that, when executed by one or more computing devices, configure the one or more computing devices to perform operations comprising:

• determining high-power consumption regions in a plurality of layers of a multilayered IC;
• determining thermally dangerous regions, wherein high-power consumption region from one layer substantially overlaps high-power consumption region of another layer;
• receiving instructions and/or data to be processed in one or more layers of the plurality of layers of the IC;
• and
• activating circuitry in the plurality of the layers of the IC, wherein the circuitry in the thermally dangerous regions are activated at different times.