CAMBRIDGE IGCSE Topic 3.1 The common characteristics of CPUs
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CAMBRIDGE 0478 & 0984 Specification Reference
Section 3.1 - 3
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00:00 The common characteristics of CPU's
00:10 Intro
00:15 Factors affecting speed
01:04 Clock speed
02:15 Cache size
03:31 Number of cores
04:25 Summary
04:28 Going beyond the IGCSE specifications
04:43 Multicore systems
05:00 Chip multiprocessors (CMP)
05:26 Additional specialised processing units
06:06 Outro
Last updated: 16.05.25
