By Kent Yang | Observer Staff Writer
Have you ever purchased a brand-new smartphone, laptop, or desktop and thought, “Wow! It’s so fast!” The main reason for this, in conjunction with other components such as memory, graphics card, and solid-state storage, for day-to-day applications, would be because of the processor.
What is a Central Processing Unit or CPU? Think of it like the brain of the human body but instead of being for a body, it’s for a computer. The CPU is a small but powerful component that processes and performs calculations from the instructions it receives. CPUs are sometimes referred to as “chips,” and this is due to it being a main type of logic chip.