What is physically different between a high-end CPU (e.g. Intel i7) and a low-end one (Intel i3)? What makes the low-end one cheaper?
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Imagine the job you want your processor to do is eating food. You know how I eat faster than you do? Part of that is having a bigger mouth (L1 cache), using bigger silverware (L2 cache), and having a larger plate (L3 cache). It’s also about making sure that I’m taking the right size bites, constantly chewing because I make sure that the next bite is ready to go into my mouth by the time I’m done chewing (hyperthreading and pipelining).
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