[WIP] CPU, GPU and stuff!
Some beginner stuff! Core, Microprocessor/Processor, Chip “A chip” is the physical semiconductor chip; it’s “a physical integrated circuit” comprised of transistors, resistors, and capacitors. A processor (here, think of CPU, the central “processing” unit) is a digital circuit that’s implemented on a single or a few chips. Now, the term micro is appended to the beginning of processors to refer to the fact that it takes a single or a very few chips to implement a microprocessor. But this is more of a definition. In the context/scope of this post, consider 1 microprocessor = 1 chip. ...