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Card 6

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The higher the clock speed, the more instructions can be processed every second, so the faster the processor. However, more instructions processed means more heat, and more power consumed, so all processors have a maximum ‘safe’ clock speed. This can be m

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Card 7

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Most devices are dual-core (2 cores) or even quad-core (4 cores), meaning that they can process instructions faster than a single core processor. However, they are not quite double (or quadruple) the speed due to the way they communicate with each other t

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