a) Improving the IC technology of the logic circuits
b) Reducing the amount of processing done in one step
c) By using the overclocking method
d) All of the mentioned
Answer: d
Explanation: The clock rate(frequency of the processor) is the hardware dependent quantity it is fixed for a given processor.
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