central processing unit — Diccionario de inglés

Sustantivo

1. The part of a computer that fetches, decodes and executes instructions from memory, possibly through a cache.

   Sinónimos

   CPU

Sustantivo

1. (computer science) the part of a computer (a microprocessor chip) that does most of the data processing

   Sinónimos

   CPUC.P.U.central processorprocessormainframe

   Términos más generales

   electronic equipmenthardwarecomputer hardware

   Ejemplos

   the CPU and the memory form the central part of a computer to which the peripherals are attached