The Von Neumann architecture, or Von Neumann model, derives from a 1945 description of computer architecture by the physicist, mathematician and polymath John von Neumann and others. Describes a design architecture for a digital electronic computer with a control unit containing an instruction register and a program counter, external mass storage, subdivisions of a processing unit consisting of an arithmetic logic unit, and computer registers processor, a memory to store both data and commands, also input and output mechanisms. The meaning of the term has grown to mean a stored-program computer in which a fetch command and a data operation cannot occur at the same time because they share a common bus. This is commonly referred to as a Von Neumann bottleneck and often limits the performance of a system. The Von Neumann bottleneck is a limitation on material or data caused by the standard architecture of the personal computer. Previous computers were fed programs and data to process while they were running. Von Neumann created the idea behind the stored-program computer, our current standard model. In the Von Neumann architecture, programs and data are held or held in memory, the processor and memory are separated as a result data moves between the two. In such a configuration, latency or dormancy is inevitable. In recent years, the speed of processors has increased significantly. Memory improvements, in contrast, have mostly been in size or volume. This improvement gives it the ability to store more data in less space; instead of focusing on transfer speeds. As speed increases, processors spend an increasing amount of time idle, waiting for data to be fetched from memory. All in all, no matter how fast or powerful it is...... middle of paper ......r falseAccording to the dictionary, memory is defined as a device used to store data or programs (sequences of instructions) on a temporary or permanent for use in an electronic digital computer. Computers represent information in binary code, written as sequences of 0s and 1s. Each binary digit (or "bit") can be stored by any physical system that can be in one of two stable states, to represent 0s and 1s. Such system is called bistable. This could be an on-off switch, an electrical capacitor that can store or lose a charge, a magnet with the polarity pointing up or down, or a surface that may or may not have a hole. Today, capacitors and transistors, which function like tiny electrical switches, are used for temporary storage, while magnetically coated disks or tapes or plastic disks with perforated patterns are used for long-term storage. (Dictionary.com 20014)