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CPU revision
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- 1What does FETCH mean?Collect information or tasks to complete
- 2What does DECODE mean?It is changing a task into binary for the computer to understand
- 3What does CPU stand for?Central Processing Unit
- 4A CPU is traditionally made up of ...?A single core
- 5What does EXECUTE mean?It is doing what the instruction wants you to do
- 6What does adding more cores do?Allows the CPU to do more things at once
- 7What is clock speed?How many instructions the CPU can do at one time
- 8How is clock speed recorded?The amount of times the crystal vibrates in one second (instructions complete)
- 9What is clock speed measured in?Hertz
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- GCSE Computer Studies Flashcards on CPU revision, created by Mary Skuodas on 08/09/2017.
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