The classic 5 stages pipeline CPU, each stage can be viewed a "part" of a CPU<BR><BR>- Instruction Fetch (from memory) <BR>- Instruction Decode<BR>- Execute (ALU)<BR>- Access<BR>- Writeback (To memory ...

Over the years there have been a few CPUs designed to directly run a high-level programming language, the most common ...

The motherboard is perhaps the least glamorous part of the personal computer. Video cards and CPUs all have their die-hard partisans and their benchmark bakeoffs, but a motherboard purchase is less ...

As you probably know, processors – and most other digital technology – are made up of transistors. The simplest way to think of a transistor is as a controllable switch with three pins. When the gate ...

We all think of the CPU as the "brains" of a computer, but what does that actually mean? What is going on inside with the billions of transistors that make your computer work? In this four-part series ...

A computer is a complex machine. While most of it works on a microscopic level, it certainly has recognizable macroscopic components that contribute to its uses. A computer can be used to do just ...