primary cache
primary cache
[¦prī‚mer·ē ′kash]primary cache
(hardware, architecture)For example, an Intel 80486 has an eight-kilobyte on-chipcache, and most Pentiums have a 16-KB on-chip level onecache that consists of an 8-KB instruction cache and an 8-KBdata cache.
The larger, slower secondary cache is normally connected tothe CPU via its external bus.