Modern CPU is made of silicon material, and in a sense, the main component of sand on the beach is also silicon (silicon dioxide), and the silicon material used to produce CPU is actually extracted from sand.

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"CPU" generally refers to "central processing unit"

Central processing unit (CPU, central? Processing? Unit) is a very large scale integrated circuit, which is the computing core and control core of a computer. It mainly includes two parts: arithmetic unit and controller. In addition, it includes several registers, cache memory and buses for data, control and status.

The CPU has multi-thread, multi-core,? Out-of-order execution, NUMA technology, branching technology, SMP and other processing technologies, together with memory and input and output devices, are called the three core components of electronic computers. Its function is mainly to interpret computer instructions and process data in computer software.