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1Clock SpeedThe clock speed goes 500 Hz means 500 cycles per second
1ghtz mean 1 billion cycles
Other factors of influence
Amount of cache availed
Number of predecessor cores
2Cache MemoryNeeds to access the main memory (RAM) where programs are stored
Needs cache memory which is used to store data waiting to be processed
3The Fetch-Execute CycleA processor can only perform one instruction at a time, it must fetch the instruction, decode it and then execute it, this is known as the fetch-execute cycle.
4Multiple CoresA processor could be described as dual core or quad core, this means that they have two or four cores.
Processors that have more than one core are known as multiple core and can
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