Types of Processors

Question 1

RISC

Answer 1

A design that produces a simple, cheap integrated circuit with a basic range of machine instructions. Relies on speed as complex instructions take many machine cycles.

Question 2

CISC

Answer 2

A design that produces a complicated and expensive integrated circuit capable of performing a large variety of complex instructions. Complex instructions can be executed with few machine cycles.

Question 3

Multi-core system

Answer 3

Development of CISC architecture with several sets of CPU components in one microprocessor.

Question 4

Parallel system

Answer 4

The simultaneous use of several processors to perform a single job. A job may be split into a number of tasks each of which may be processed by any available processor.

Question 5

GPU

Answer 5

Designed to rapidly manipulate and alter memory to accelerate the creation of images in a frame buffer intended for output to a display.

Modern GPUs have a highly parallel structure that makes them more effective than CPUs for algorithms where processing of large blocks of data is done in parallel.

Question 6

cpu

Answer 6

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