Stella designs a 3 GHz processor where two important programs, A and B, take one second each to execute. Each program has a CPI of 1.5. Sam is tasked with designing the company's next-generation processor and she comes up with an idea that improves the CPI of A to 1.25 and the CPI of B to 1. But the processor can only be implemented with a cycle time of 0.5 ns. Does Sam's new processor out-perform Stella's processor on program A? How about on program B

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Stella designs a 3 GHz processor where two important programs, A and B, take one second each to execute. Each program has a CPI of 1.5. Sam is tasked with designing the company's next-generation processor and she comes up with an idea that improves the CPI of A to 1.25 and the CPI of B to 1. But the processor can only be implemented with a cycle time of 0.5 ns. Does Sam's new processor out-perform Stella's processor on program A? How about on program B? 

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