Hardware

Hardware

1. Clock speed

   • Clock speed determines the frequency of the fetch execute cycle. Clock speed is measured in hertz.

2. Cash money/Memory

   • Cache memory is a small type of memory that is really quick. By storing regularly used items in the cache the computer can cut load times. 

3. The matrix / Virtual memory

   • Virtual memory is when some of the storage space on the hard drive is used to pretend / act as memory. Virtual memory is slower however it will allow for more tasks to be active at the same time.

4. Multi core apples/CPU's

   • Originally, CPUs had a single core. That meant the physical CPU had a single central processing unit on it. To increase performance, manufacturers add additional “cores,” or central processing units. A dual-core CPU has two central processing units, so it appears to the operating system as two CPUs. A different process can be using each core at the same time. This speeds up your system, because your computer can do multiple things at once. Unlike hyper-threading, there are no tricks here — a dual-core CPU literally has two central processing units on the CPU chip. A quad-core CPU has four central processing units, an octa-core CPU has eight central processing units, and so on. This helps dramatically improve performance while keeping the physical CPU unit small so it fits in a single socket. There only needs to be a single CPU socket with a single CPU unit inserted into it — not four different CPU sockets with four different CPUs, each needing their own power, cooling, and other hardware. There’s less latency because the cores can communicate more quickly, as they’re all on the same chip.

5. Flash awarrrrrrr Savior of the universe!

   • Flash memory is a non volatile storage of memory.