We all know, at least intellectually, that our computers are all built with lots of tiny transistors. But beyond that it’s a little hard to describe. They’re printed on a silicon wafer somehow ...

The CPU’s job is to execute the programs ... We've already made a Arithmetic and Logic Unit, which takes in binary numbers and performs calculations, and we've made two types of computer memory ...

CPUs consist of a processing unit called an ALU (arithmetic/logic unit), a control unit that controls how the data comes and out of the chip, registers, operations (fetch, decode, execute) that follow ...

an iPad's CPU, for example, has different instructions than one running a Windows-based laptop. Processors have a circuit called the arithmetic and logic unit that carries out calculations and ...

At a bare minimum, a CPU is an instruction decoder and an arithmetic logic unit (ALU); the decoder reads instructions from memory and directs the ALU to perform appropriate arithmetic. Prior CPUs ...

Perhaps this CPU-less computer with a single NOR-gate instead of an arithmetic-logic unit is enough of a hacker flex? We certainly think so. We must admit that when we first saw [Dennis Kuschel ...

These are handled by the CPU’s Arithmetic/Logic Unit (ALU). CPUs have a large instruction set, allowing them to perform a wide range of tasks. A CPU processes new instructions one after another ...

Bit slice processors used arithmetic logic units (ALUs) that typically came in 4-bit increments, although 1- and 2-bit devices were also made. Connected to a control unit, the ALU slices were ...