Microprocessor

A microprocessor (abbreviated as µP or uP) is a computer electronic component made from miniaturized transistors on a single semiconductor integrated circuit (IC) (aka microchip or just chip). The central processing unit (CPU) is the most well known microprocessor, but many other components in a computer have them, such as the GPU on a video card.

See also

• Central processing unit
• Computer architecture
• Addressing mode
• Digital signal processor
• Microcontroller
• List of AMD µPs
• List of Intel µPs
• addressing mode
• arithmetic and logical unit
• BIOS
• CISC / RISC
• clock rate
• computer bus
• computer engineering
• CPU cooling
• CPU core voltage
• CPU design
• CPU locking
• CPU power consumption
• floating point unit
• front side bus
• instruction pipeline
• instruction set
• microarchitecture
• microcode
• motherboard
• superscalar
• superpipelined
• wait state