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processor Last modified: Thursday, July 14, 2005

Short for microprocessor or CPU. Also see All About Dual-Core Processors  in Webopedia's "Did You Know...?" section.

Internal Processor Architecture and Operation Describes processor instruction sets and modes, internal architectural components, the instruction execution process, and performance enhancing architecture features. This page is from "The PC Guide." Processor Families Provides detailed technical information about all the major processor families used on PC-compatible computers. Covers every major x86 processor from the first Intel 8088 used in the original IBM PC to the latest released hot chips. This page is from "The PC Guide".