Eight Great Ideas - created from Mind Map

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Moore's Law

Moore's Law

Abstraction

Remove details at each level for simplicity

Optimize Common case

Parallelism

Improves performance

Simultaneous processes

Pipelining

Each thing has a unique responsibility

eg. passing water down a line

type of parallelism

Prediction

Start of on guesses assuming there will be future changes

Memory Hierarchy

fastest, smallest, and most expensive memory per bit at the top of the hierarchy and the slowest, largest, and cheapest per bit at the bottom

Dependability by redundances

including redundant components that can take over when a failure occurs and to help detect failures.