Exam 7: Processing

An integrated circuit is a chip that can contain millions of transistors.

Employees have been the driving force in making _____ the most popular hardware brand today.

The size and shape of the _____ influences what a system component may look like.

The CPU is a group of circuits that perform processing in a computer.

A CPU component known as the _____ carries out the instructions used for mathematical and logical operations.

The specifications of a computer usually include the speed of the _____ bus.

Optical computing and quantum computing are two new promising types of mobile processing technology.

A gaming system takes advantage of _____ processors to power up its speed and performance.

Transistors control the flow of _____ by switching electrical pulses on and off.

Integrated circuits are also known as _____.

Software instructions are processed in the machine cycle of the processor.

All of the following sequences are stages of the machine cycle EXCEPT _________.

Using Moore's Law,we can gauge how fast ____________ might be in the coming years.

An integrated circuit may hold thousands,millions,or even billions of _____.

The _____ plays an important role in transforming data into useful information.

A quad-core processor combines four CPUs on one chip to share the workload and speed up processing.

Moore's Law states that the number of transistors on a chip will double about every _____ months.

The machine cycle and the system clock work together when processing instructions.

The _____ is housed in the CPU and temporarily stores frequently used data.

Transistors today are so small that over two billion can be stored on a surface the size of your thumbnail.