Today I spent most of it on defining what each of the key terms that i needed to provide some background on, they may be found to the right of this post. The reason it takes a long time to define all of the terms that i will be using is because there is an extremely large amount of abbreviation and odd terms used to describe what happens inside the processor to actually make it work properly. Some of the terms may be a little vague such as L3 Cache this is because of it being relatively new to the scene and not much information to properly express it is available. Most of these terms will be used very frequently during the term of my project.
My foundation questions need to be developed more, such as more specific questions, questions that are better able to be answered. What i am doing now is providing myself with a large quantity of questions and will reduce the number of questions as i see the question which as inadequate, which will hopefully provide me with good foundation questions.
This post will be edited when my foundation questions are complete.
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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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