A central processing unit (CPU), also referred to as a central processor unit, is the hardware within a computer that carries out the instructions of a computer program by performing the basic ...

Hung-Wei Tseng, a UC Riverside associate professor of electrical and computer engineering, has laid out a paradigm shift in computer architecture ... from one processing unit to the next, which ...

All programs and data processing are run in the CPU and all hardware components are, to some extent, controlled by it.

At the birth of the computer era, the IBM PC became the standard computer in large part due to its modular architecture with ... referred to as a graphics processing unit, or GPU, but in reality ...