All sorts of devices use a CPU, including desktop, laptop, and tablet computers, smartphones, even your flat-screen television set. Intel and AMD are the two most popul… See more

A modern CPU is usually small and square, with many short, rounded, metallic connectors on its underside. Some older CPUs have pins instead of metallic connectors… See more

Some devices use a single-core processor while others may have a dual-core (or quad-core, etc.) processor. Running two processor units working side-by-side means tha… See more

For a more specific example of how some CPUs are faster than others, let's look at how Intel has developed its processors. Just as you'd probably suspect from their naming, Int… See more

Neither clock speed, nor simply the number of CPU cores, is the sole factor determining whether one CPU is "better" than another. It often depends most on the type of software th… See more