Chapter 6 Inside Computers and Mobile Devices
Inside the Case 1. The motherboard is the main circuit board of the computer 2. processor, also called the central processing unit (CPU), interprets and carries out the basic instructions that operate a computer Ø A multi-core processor is a single chip with two or more separate processor cores Ø control unit is the component of the processor that directs and coordinates most of the operations in the computer Ø The arithmetic logic unit (ALU) performs arithmetic, comparison, and other operations Ø every instruction, a processor repeats a set of four...