CPU Essentials
These three words are abbreviated as CPU.
What is Central Processing Unit?
This type of CPU fits into a small device, such as a phone, and uses very little power.
What is a mobile CPU?
This material is purified from silica-rich sand or quartz to make CPU wafers.
What is silicon?
In the slideshow's calculator example, the CPU processes 2 + 2 and produces this output.
What is 4?
Instead of putting old electronics in regular garbage, use this proper disposal method.
What is e-waste recycling?
These working parts of a CPU carry out instructions; having several lets it work on several tasks at once.
What are cores?
This CPU type handles large amounts of information in data centres and powerful business computers.
What is a server CPU?
After testing, a wafer is cut into individual chips known by this plural name.
What are dies?
This gives the CPU the instructions it needs to run applications.
What is software?
The slideshow places the Intel 4004 in this year.
What is 1971?
This CPU component performs mathematical operations and comparisons.
What is the ALU?
Found in cars, appliances and robots, this CPU type controls a particular machine or performs one special job.
What is an embedded CPU?
In this manufacturing step, thin layers of conducting, insulating and semiconducting materials are added to the wafer.
What is deposition?
When an application opens, this software loads the necessary instructions into memory.
What is the operating system?
This invention from 1947 appears first on the slideshow's CPU history timeline.
What is the transistor?
This component directs the CPU's activities and actions.
What is the control unit?
Common on Windows and Linux desktop computers, this instruction set is used by most Intel and AMD CPUs.
What is x86-64?
This step uses light-sensitive photoresist and DUV or EUV light to transfer a tiny circuit pattern onto a wafer.
What is photolithography?
Name any three hardware components listed as working with the CPU in the slideshow.
What are any three of RAM, storage, GPU, motherboard and input device?
Name two ways to extend a computer's useful life instead of replacing the entire system.
What are repairing it and upgrading it?
Name both: the tiny, extremely fast storage inside the CPU, and the fast memory that keeps frequently needed information close by.
What are registers and cache?
Common in phones, tablets and some newer laptops, processors using this instruction set are usually designed for low power use and less heat.
What is Arm (ARM)?
This step adds charged atoms to selected areas of silicon, changing how electricity flows and helping form transistors.
What is ion implantation?
In the slideshow's code-to-output diagram, this stage comes between programming code and machine instructions.
What is a compiler or interpreter?
Efficient software reduces this unnecessary CPU activity, lowering the computing resources required.
What is unnecessary processing?