3. Inside the CPU

Question 1

What are the components of a cpu ?

Answer 1

1. ALU (arithmetic)
2. CU (control unit)
3. MMU
4. registers
5. L caches
6. Bus

Question 2

What is the CU ? First time hearing of it

Answer 2

It is part of the cpu which is responsible of :
1. Fetching the next instruction
2. Decoding it (understands it)
3. Generate control signals to other parts of the

Question 3

Where does the bus fit ?

Answer 3

It is between cpu and memory

Question 4

What is NUMA and when it happens ?

Answer 4

None uniform memory access