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Advanced CPU Designs: Crash Course Computer Science #9
04/26/2017 | 12m
| Video has closed captioning.
So now that we’ve built and programmed our very own CPU, we’re going to take a step back and look at how CPU speeds have rapidly increased from just a few cycles per second to gigahertz! Some of that improvement, of course, has come from faster and more efficient transistors, but a number hardware designs have been implemented to boost performance.