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In the UMA architecture, each processor may use a private cache. Peripherals are also shared in some fashion, The UMA model is suitable for general purpose and time sharing applications by multiple users. It can be used to speed up the execution of a single large program in time critical applications.

Unified Memory Architecture (UMA) is a computer architecture in which graphics chips are built into the motherboard and part of the computer's main memory is used for video memory.

<ref>Advanced Computer Architecture, Kai Hwang, ISBN 0-07-113342-9</ref>