processor
The chip that carries out a program's instructions, one after another; also called the CPU.
A processor (central processing unit, CPU) is the hardware that fetches machine-code instructions from memory and executes them.
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The chip that carries out a program's instructions, one after another; also called the CPU.
A processor (central processing unit, CPU) is the hardware that fetches machine-code instructions from memory and executes them.
See also