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The organizational changes in processor design have primarily been focused on increasing instruction-level parallelism so that more work could be done in each clock cycle.

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True

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With superscalar organization increased performance can be achieved by increasing the number of parallel pipelines.

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True

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The increasingly difficult engineering challenge related to processor logic is one of the reasons that an increasing fraction of the processor chip is devoted to the simpler memory logic.

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True

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The demand on power requirements has not grown as chip density and clock frequency have risen.

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False

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As chip transistor density has increased, the percentage of chip area devoted to memory has decreased.

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False

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The potential performance benefits of a multicore organization depend on the ability to effectively exploit the parallel resources available to the application.

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True

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Database management systems and database applications are one area in which multicore systems can be used effectively.

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True

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Even if an individual application does not scale to take advantage of a large number of threads, it is still possible to gain from multicore architecture by running multiple instances of the application in parallel.

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True

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An advantage of using a shared L2 cache on the chip is that data shared by multiple cores is not replicated at the shared cache level.

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True

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A potential advantage to having only dedicated L2 caches on the chip is that each core enjoys more rapid access to its private L2 cache.

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True