Most modern CPUs are primarily von Neumann in design, but elements of the Harvard architecture are commonly seen as well.

Most of these early synchronous CPUs ran at low clock rates compared to modern microelectronic designs ( see below for a discussion of clock rate ).

Most CPUs, and indeed most sequential logic devices, are synchronous in nature.

Most modern CPU designs are at least somewhat superscalar, and nearly all general purpose CPUs designed in the last decade are superscalar.

Most early vector CPUs, such as the Cray-1, were associated almost exclusively with scientific research and cryptography applications.

Most modern CPUs have several execution units.

; unaligned access: Most CPUs are byte-addressable, where each unique memory address refers to an 8-bit byte.

Most CPUs can access individual bytes from each memory address, but they generally cannot access larger units ( 16 bits, 32 bits, 64 bits and so on ) without these units being " aligned " to a specific boundary.

Most modern CPUs " guess " which branch will be taken even before the calculation is complete, so that they can load up the instructions for the branch, or ( in some architectures ) even start to compute them speculatively.

* Most people own more than one P. C., though the concept of what a " computer " is has changed considerably: Computers are no longer limited in design to laptops or CPUs contained in a large box connected to a monitor.

Most modern CPUs are considerably more complex than this description suggests.

Most modern CPUs are so fast that for most program workloads, the bottleneck is the locality of reference of memory accesses and the efficiency of the caching and memory transfer between different levels of the hierarchy.

Most high performance 32-bit and 64-bit processors ( some notable exceptions are most ARM and 32-bit MIPS CPUs ) have integrated floating point hardware, which is often, but not always, based on 64-bit units of data.

Most CPUs are designed so that the contents of a single integer register can store the address ( location ) of any datum in the computer's virtual memory.

Most modern CPUs increase their effective operating speeds by multiplying the system clock frequency by a factor ( the CPU multiplier ).

Most modern mainstream and value CPUs are made with a lower TDP to reduce heat, noise, and power consumption.

Most modern desktop and server CPUs have at least three independent caches: an instruction cache to speed up executable instruction fetch, a data cache to speed up data fetch and store, and a translation lookaside buffer ( TLB ) used to speed up virtual-to-physical address translation for both executable instructions and data.

Most modern CPUs will only cause a therm-trip on a catastrophic cooling failure such as a stuck fan or a loose heatsink.

Most machines use the Runway bus to connect the CPUs directly to the IOMMU ( Astro, U2 / Uturn or Java ) and memory.

Most modern CPUs ( even embedded CPUs ) are now pipelined, and microcoded CPUs with no pipelining are seen only in the most area-constrained embedded processors.

Most modern CPUs feature SIMD instruction sets ( SSE, AltiVec etc.

Most of the features included in MPEG-4 are left to individual developers to decide whether to implement them.

Most modern languages with objects or pointers can implement or come with libraries for dynamic lists.

Most RTSP servers use the Real-time Transport Protocol ( RTP ) in conjunction with Real-time Control Protocol ( RTCP ) for media stream delivery, however some vendors implement proprietary transport protocols.

Most practical applications of cryptography use a combination of cryptographic functions to implement an overall system that provides all of the four desirable features of secure communications ( Confidentiality, Integrity, Authentication, and Non-repudiation ).

Most newer cards implement the more capable VBE 3. 0 standard.

Most modern software systems provide libraries that implement the majority of system services.

Most database servers use logs to implement the rollback feature, which can result in rollbacks taking a long time or possibly even requiring manual intervention.

Most digital pianos implement a variety of features not found on a traditional piano.

Most hard drives released after 1996 implement logical block addressing.

Most SCI1 games are completely mouse-driven, using an icon-based interface ; contrary to popular thought, it is up to the game's script code, not to the interpreter, to implement the user interface.

Most of these weapons are theoretical or impractical to implement currently, aside from lasers which are starting to be used in terrestrial warfare.

Most types of corporal punishment are named after the implement or apparatus used to inflict the punishment.

Most organizations, even larger ones, hire outside consultants, either from the software publisher or consultants who understand the organization and who work to help the organization select and implement the ideal configuration, taking all components into consideration.

Most developed countries implement Basel I and II, stipulate lending limits as a multiple of a banks capital eroded by the yearly inflation rate.

Most consumer Internet providers implement policies like these.

Most iTV platforms, along with BD-J, implement Personal Basis Profile with no AWT widgets, as opposed to Personal Profile which includes the widgets.

Most Bluetooth cards do not implement any form of the 802. 11 standard.

Most ADLs implement an interface connection architecture.

At first they efficiently implement their ideas for Springfield, which include banning green traffic lights and playing only classical music at the dog races, which elevates Springfield past East St. Louis on the list of America's 300 Most Livable Cities.

Most modern FDTD implementations instead use a special absorbing " material ", called a perfectly matched layer ( PML ) to implement absorbing boundaries.

Most of these implement the general model of an associative array: an unordered list of unique attributes with associated values.

Most systems implement a privileged system channel, plus a private channel for each logged-in user, so that available information in the D-Bus registry can be restricted.

Most modern hardware implement methods for reducing or eliminating the possibility of an interrupt storm.

Most of the algorithmic strategies are implemented using modern programming languages, although some still implement strategies designed in spreadsheets.