‘CPU’ is an acronym which stands for central processing unit and, in a broad sense, it does exactly what it says on the tin, working as the main component responsible for processing information in ...

CPU (Central Processing Unit) is the most important part of a computer. All the calculations needed to run a particular task or application on a computer are processed by the CPU. That’s why it is ...

We all know, at least intellectually, that our computers are all built with lots of tiny transistors. But beyond that it’s a little hard to describe. They’re printed on a silicon wafer somehow, and ...

Unhackable computer? Do they exist? A CPU is mostly considered as "the brain" of the computer, just like the brains of human beings, as they are responsible for both receiving and executing commands.

A Finland-based firm is aiming to increase the performance of the central processing units (CPUs) used in computers by up to 100 times using what the company calls – parallel processing units (PPU) ...