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Magneto-optical technology peaked in the mid-1980s.

The latest trend in high-performance CPU design embeds multiple CPUs and cache memory on a single chip—an approach called ____.

Multiple-processor architecture is not common in workstations.

Magnetic disk drives have an advantage over SSDs in power consumption.

MP3 compresses the audio data stream by discarding information about masked sounds or representing them with fewer bits.

A ____ storage device stores and retrieves data items in a linear, or sequential, order.

The time needed to move from one track to another is called ____, typically measured in milliseconds.

One way to limit wait states is to use an SDRAM cache between the CPU and SRAM primary storage.

Primary storage devices must closely match CPU speed and word size to avoid ____________________.

Most compression algorithms have a corresponding ____________________ algorithm that restores compressed data to its original or nearly original state.