Does 8 cores mean 8x faster? From Amdahl's Law to concurrency vs parallelism, hyper-threading, and why Chrome eats so much RAM.
Why does MacBook battery last long? Should I use AWS Graviton? A deep dive into the philosophy of CISC (Complex) vs RISC (Simple) architectures.
The gold mine of AI era, NVIDIA GPUs. Why do we run AI on gaming graphics cards? Learn the difference between workers (CUDA) and matrix geniuses (Tensor Cores).
Bought a fast SSD but it's still slow? One-lane country road (SATA) vs 16-lane highway (NVMe).
LP records vs USB drives. Why physically spinning disks are inherently slow, and how SSDs made servers 100x faster.
| Feature | Single Core | Multi Core | Hyper-Threading |
|---|---|---|---|
| Analogy | 1 Genius Chef | 4 Regular Chefs | 1 Chef with VERY fast hands |
| Strength | Sequential Tasks | Mass Parallel Tasks | Cost Efficiency |
| Weakness | No Multi-tasking | Needs Software Support | Slower than true Cores |
| Risk | None | Deadlocks, Race Conditions | Cache Thrashing |
| OS View | 1 CPU | N CPUs | 2 CPUs (Logical) |
| Law | Moore's Law | Amdahl's Law | - |
