Principles of Information Systems (MindTap Course List)
Principles of Information Systems (MindTap Course List)
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ISBN: 9781305971776
Author: Ralph Stair, George Reynolds
Publisher: Cengage Learning
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Multicore processor:

  • It is an integrated circuit where two or more processors are attached in order to enhance the performance, reduced power consumption, and are very efficient to perform multiple tasks simultaneously.
  • The systems with large number of processors are sometimes referred as many-core or massively multi-core systems.

Advantages:

  • The first and foremost advantage is that it can run multiple instructions at the same time which makes it faster than single-core processor.
  • Because of the increasing amount of processing it is used to perform larger tasks and is more productive than single-core processor...

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