2025.02.13F·26Overclocking: Principles and Risks
You can make your CPU faster for free? The story of how I almost fried my CPU pushing past factory limits.
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→2025.02.12F·25ARM vs x86: The Philosophy of Architecture
Why does MacBook battery last long? Should I use AWS Graviton? A deep dive into the philosophy of CISC (Complex) vs RISC (Simple) architectures.
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→2025.02.06F·19Single-Core vs Multi-Core: Are More Cores Always Faster? (Deep Dive)
Does 8 cores mean 8x faster? From Amdahl's Law to concurrency vs parallelism, hyper-threading, and why Chrome eats so much RAM.
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→2025.02.05F·18CPU vs GPU: One Einstein vs 10,000 Elementary Students (Deep Dive)
Why did AI and deep learning abandon CPUs for GPUs? From ALU architecture to CUDA memory hierarchy and generative AI principles.
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→2025.02.04F·17Cache Memory Hierarchy (L1, L2, L3): The Art of Making Every Second Count 100x
90% of CPU performance is determined by cache. From data locality and MESI protocol to cache mapping, TLB, branch prediction, and NUMA.
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→2025.02.02F·15Clock Speed (Hz) vs IPC: Why 3.0GHz Can Beat 4.0GHz
Don't be fooled by spec sheet numbers. The real secret of CPU performance isn't how fast it ticks, but how much work it does per tick.
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→2025.01.31F·13Instruction Cycle: Fetch-Decode-Execute
How the CPU breathes. This 3-step rhythm repeated billions of times a second is the computer's life.
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→2025.01.30F·12CPU Structure: CU, ALU, Registers
A CPU is actually a giant factory. Inside, there are Managers, Workers, and Workbenches.
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