
MULTICORE PROCESSORS 16-19
5. What is meant by voltage scaling?
6. With two cores in a chip, the performance does not really double. Why?
7. Name the interconnects that are commonly used in multicore processors.
8. How does cache coherence become a problem when there are multiple cores?
9. Name the popular cache coherency protocols used.
10. What are the implications of Amdahl’s law in the context of multicore processing?
11. Name a few multicore processors of Intel and AMD.
12. What was the problem faced by the early Intel multicore processors?
13. What differences did the Nehalem processor incorporate?
14. What are the key features of AMD’ ...