This video is on processor design and what makes them so fast.
- Some processors are mentioned with additional circuits (Pentium mmx for example). What might be the advantage of these kind of processors and what two uses are mentioned?
- Why do most processors keep all the old instruction set instructions when they have a new instruction set designed?
- Why does a potential bottle-neck occur between RAM and CPU?
- What is Cache memory and how can having Cache memory make operations in the processor faster?
- What is a Dirty Bit?
- Describe Instruction Pipe-lining and why it could be an advantage.
- What is Speculative Execution and how might it lead to a Pipeline Flush?
- What do we mean when we say a processor is Quad Core?
- Super Computers are often measured in FLOPS - what is a FLOP?