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6. This problem deals with speedup and Amdahl's Law (SLO1 and SLO2). (20 points) You are employed at ABC Computer Inc. as an engineer in their computer architecture division that produces the ABC-8 a desktop computer system. There are four possible performance improvements. However, the budget will only allow for only one improvement. Your boss wants you to recommend the improvement that will provide the greatest speedup and provide supporting justification. The options are listed below. Operation Percentage of Use Time Before Enhancement Read 25% 800ns Write 15% 950ns Processing 50% I/O 10% 500 us (micro-second) 8ns Option A: Reduce the time needed for the Read operation to 600 ns. Option B: Reduce the time needed for the Write operation to 550 ns. Option C: Reduce the time needed for the Processing operation to 6 ns. Option D: Reduce the time needed for the I/O operation to 350 us (micro- second)