The CPU

1. What is the function of the CPU?The CPU is the heart of any normal computer, it is a complete computation engine that is fabricated on a single chip.

2. What was the name of the first CPU?
The first CPU was the Intel 4004, 1971 was the name it was introduced.

3. Referring to the graph on page 2 of the article, describe how the speed of CPU’s has changed.
The CPU speed has increased by 1993 it was 5000 times faster than the 8080 this is shown by the Pentium. Pentium is also improving the speed is up to 3.6 GHz while the first Pentium was only 60 MHz(clock speed)
4. What does MIPS measure?
The MIPS stands for (millions of instructions per second)
5. Research (Google it) what is a dual core processor, what is multitasking and how do the two work together.
A dual-core processor differs from a single-core chip in that it has two physical computer processing unit, or CPU, cores on a single die. So when you buy a PC with an Intel or AMD dual-core processor, the CPU architecture will have two processor cores bridged together with electronics circuitry.