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The microprocessor is an integrated circuit that elaborates information in the form of digital signals. Not to be confused with a microcontroller, which embeds many additional devices to control embedded systems.
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In modern CPUs, is the etched chip face-up in the packaging?
I know that the integrated circuits of the 1980s had the etched chip glued face-up inside the packaging, with tiny gold wires bridging the open space from the top surface of the chip, down to contact …
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Can a CPU function with nothing more than a power supply and a ROM, using only the internal ...
Can a CPU (such as the Intel i3/i5/i7/Xeon) with on-chip cache RAM use that as its only functional RAM, without any external memory banks attached?
Or must there be external RAM, and the cache cannot …