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CPUs can broadly be considered to have three major components: - Memory subsystem - Frontend - Backend That is: - Get the data to work on - Figure out wha
by moonchild 3y ago
CPUs can broadly be considered to have three major components:
- Memory subsystem
- Frontend
- Backend
That is:
- Get the data to work on
- Figure out what work to do on it
- Actually do the work.
These are in order of decreasing importance. The von neumann bottleneck is real.