Intel interview questions and answers

The following questions are used for screening the candidates during the first interview. The questions apply mostly to fresh college grads pursuing an engineering career at Intel. Have you studied buses? What types? Have you studied pipelining? List the 5 stages of a 5 stage pipeline. Assuming 1 clock per stage, what is the latency of an instruction in a 5 stage machine? What is the throughput of this machine ? How many bit combinations are there in a byte? For a single computer processor computer system, what is the purpose of a processor cache and describe its operation? Explain the operation considering a two processor computer system with a cache for each processor. What are the main issues associated with multiprocessor caches and how might you solve them? Explain...

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