What is a CPU? What's behind the term

The CPU is the heart of your computer. It is through the CPU that all actions and commands are routed and passed on to other hardware. CPU basically stands for "Central Processing Unit" and in hardware engineering it is considered as a unit, but it can consist of multiple cores.

What is a CPU? These are the basics

The CPU, interestingly enough, is the smallest component in your computer. The CPU is a small chip that sits on your motherboard, and most of the time it's not even bigger than five centimeters.

1. When you build a computer, the CPU is carefully placed on the motherboard. There is a special and very sensitive slot, through which the CPU is connected to the computer.
2. Above the CPU is a cooler, which provides adequate cooling by copper fins and a fan, because a CPU can get hot to over 90 degrees during operation.
3. All operations on the computer are passed to the CPU, and it continues to calculate with the inputs and passes commands to surrounding hardware.

This is what the cores are good for

1. When it comes to a CPU, the question "How many cores are there?" usually plays an important role.
2. Je mehr Kerne oder „Cores“ ein Prozessor hat, desto leistungsfähiger ist er, da er mehr Aufgaben parallel erledigen kann.
3. Beispielsweise kann ein Gigahertz-Prozessor mit einem Kern genau 1 Milliarde Operationen in einer Sekunde durchführen.