CSC 456 Fall 2013/1c wa

Trends in cache size and organization

Theory: Cache Associativity decreased as cache size became larger because it became too expensive to have to search the cache each time once the cache was too large.

The Pentium/Pentium (1995)pro was the first processor to have the l2 cache on the processor chip. Before this, the l2 cache was an option to add on to the motherboard.

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References [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Intel_microprocessors