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Introduction To CPU: Control Unit

The CPU or processor is the central processing unit and brain of the computer. It performs all calculations and data processing inside the computer. The CPU contains pins on the bottom and has heat sinks and fans to prevent overheating. Major CPU manufacturers are Intel and AMD, who make processors like Intel Core 2 Duo and AMD Athlon. The CPU has a control unit that extracts and executes instructions from memory and an arithmetic logic unit that performs arithmetic and logical operations. Faster CPUs are measured in GHz and can perform multiple tasks simultaneously.

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Introduction To CPU: Control Unit

The CPU or processor is the central processing unit and brain of the computer. It performs all calculations and data processing inside the computer. The CPU contains pins on the bottom and has heat sinks and fans to prevent overheating. Major CPU manufacturers are Intel and AMD, who make processors like Intel Core 2 Duo and AMD Athlon. The CPU has a control unit that extracts and executes instructions from memory and an arithmetic logic unit that performs arithmetic and logical operations. Faster CPUs are measured in GHz and can perform multiple tasks simultaneously.

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Introduction to CPU

CPU or the processor is a central processing unit in the computer.  It is also known as the brain of the
computer and all the calculations, data manipulations and data processing takes places in the process. It is
an internal component of the computer and it contains the pins or metallic connectors on the underside.  It
is the most expensive component inside the computer and it has the heat sinks and cooling fans over it to
dissipate the heat. Each motherboard consists of specific types of the processors.

Intel and the AMD are the two major manufacturers of the CPU and they both provide the wide range of
the processors like Intel Pentium, Intel Pentium Dual Core, Intel Celeron, Intel Quad-Core XEON, Intel
Centrino and Intel Core 2 Duo.  The AMD processor include AMD Athlon, AMD Sempron, A processor
consists of the following two important components.

 Control Unit

It extracts the instructions from memory and executes them.

 Arithmetic Logic Unit

It performs the arithmetic and logical operations.

CPU’s speed is very important for the optimized performance of your computer.  The speed of the CPU is
measured in the MHz or GHz.  One MHz can accomplish one million CPU cycles in one second.  Modern
CPUs are multitasking and multithreading and they can perform multiple tasks at the same time like you
can work in a word document, browse the internet, download the software, listen to the music and play
the games at the same time.  Processor’s performance depends on its design, clock rate, bus speed, cache
and some other things.

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