The Central Processing Unit (CPU) has been at the heart of High Performance Computing (HPC) for decades. However, in recent years, advances in parallel processing technology mean the landscape has ...

A computer reduces every task to a series of calculations and the processor -- sometimes called the central processing unit -- physically carries out these calculations. In principle, the processor's ...

The term “central processing unit” (CPU) has popularly applied to a number of different parts of a computer over the past few decades, but it most commonly denotes the microprocessor chip that acts as ...

Everyone has heard that mitochondria are the powerhouse of the cell. Well, the central processing unit (CPU) is the powerhouse of the computer. It's the brain, and without a CPU in your computer, ...

Today we’re going to build the ticking heart of every computer. Take the 2017 PBS Digital Studios Survey: http://surveymonkey.com/r/pbsds2017. Today we’re going ...

The central processing unit (CPU) is either a dedicated integrated circuit (IC) or intellectual property (IP) core on an IC that processes logic and math. A CPU can handle high-level provisioning of ...