Saturday, July 30, 2011

The CPU

Q1. What is the function of the CPU? 
The CPU stands for Central Processing Unit, it is capable of doing complex coding calculations to enable the computer to execute various functions and run several applications.

Q2. What was the name of the first CPU?
The first microprocessor was the Intel 4004.

Q3. Describe how the speed of CPU’s has changed.
The speed of CPUs has changed since the first CPU in 1973 to the latest that was released in 2004. It has increased from 2 MHz to 3.6 GHz 

Q4. What does MIPS measure?
MIPS stands for "millions of instructions per second" and is a rough measure of the performance of a CPU.


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