CPU Quiz

1.       What is the function of the CPU?

      Also known as a CPU or central processing unit, is a complete computation engine that is manifactured on a single chip.

2.       What was the name of the first CPU? 

       The 4004

3.       Referring to the graph on page 2 of the article, describe how the speed of CPU’s has changed.CPU has largley changed with each year theyre being a massive change in data width, clock speed and Transitors. this shows how our world has advanced.

4.       What does MIPS measure?
millions of instructions per second and is a rough measure of the performance of a CPU.

5.    Research (Google it) what is a dual core processor, what is multitasking and how do the two work together.CPU which consists of two processors running together and sharing the processes. Mutlti tasking is being able to do more than one thing at a time. These two things work together to create a CPU with the capability of have many things running together smoothley with no freezing.

Read the article below about the Intel Atom processor then post about what benefits this processor offers mobile devices.

http://www.intel.com/technology/atom/index.htm

Inetl Atom processor has many benifits for mobiles these include:

• a new range of power efficiant devices by having an excellent performance being enabled
• high interigrated application processor
• smaller more compact designs
• low power options
• better performance and increased system responsiveness.