My grad project is only but a small seed of an idea planted into my mind at the moment, but shall eventually sprout into wonderful concept and then become a clear and pristine idea. At the moment i am thinking about anything related to computers for my project but that is of course to much of a general of an idea. I would like to narrow it down to having something to do with the hardware of the computer so as to relate it to what i want to do with my life when graduated from high school. What i want to do is to become a computer hardware engineer which is in the most basic concept a person who designs the components for computers including things like the keyboard and the CPU or central processing unit which essentially makes the computer work.
So i will eventually narrow the large list of ideas i have at this time, to a single idea that can be turned into an actual project suitable for a formal graduation project. Then i will continue to refine and expand on the idea taking what would be needed and tossing that which is not needed or not suitable. So until i have a clearer vision of what i may want to do, i will meditate on it as well as rack my mind to the brink of both my imagination and creative ability.
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the "war" between the two companies have been going on for quite some time and they are now taking their graphics companies into the mix
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AMD vs. Intel
the "war" between the two companies have been going on for quite some time and they are now taking their graphics companies into the mix
Key Terms
- IDE (Integrated Drive Electronics) - A standard electronic interface used between a computer motherboard's data paths or bus and the computer's disk storage devices.
- Southbridge - A chip on a motherboard that controls all onboard devices including the IDE bus and PCI bus
- Northbridge - handles the data transactions between the CPU, AGP device, Southbridge chip and the main system memory.
- Intel - A company that produces microprocessors
- Semiconducotr - A solid whose electrical conductivity can be controlled over a wide range, either permanently or dynamically.
- (IC) Integrated Circut - A tiny complex of electronic components and their connections that is produced in or on a small slice of material
- Micro Processors - A microprocessor incorporates most or all of the functions of a central processing unit (CPU) on a single integrated circuit (IC)
- Random Acess Memory - A type of computer memory that can be accessed randomly, and newer memory can be accsed without touching the perviuous memory
- RAM - Random Access Memory
- FSB - Frostside bus - the physical pathway between the CPU and the RAM
- Computer bus - subsystem that transfers data between computer components inside a computer or between computers.
- Hypertransport (HT) - a bus that directly connects a processor to its memory without use of a frostisde bus
- AMD - Advanced Micro Devices
- Advanced Micro Devices - is a computer company which produces CPU's
- Computer Architecutre - the structure and organization of a computer's hardware or system software
- CPU - Central Processing Unit
- L1 Cache - A small cache integrated in a processor that provides quick access to the most recently used data
- L2 Cache - Also known as secondary cache, L2 Cache is a small amount of high-speed memory close to the CPU and usually on the motherboard.
- L3 Cache - a cache used to reduece the avg time it takes the CPU to access memory
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