What is a CPU?

- Friends, I give you the CPU or Central Processing Unit.…The CPU, often called the brains of your computer,…is really nothing more than a powerful calculator,…but man, can it calculate.…By making this guy do all that he can do,…we can be running around in first person shooters,…or we can be editing video…or we can be writing big Word documents,…this is the guy that makes all of this happen.…But to appreciate CPUs,…we have to appreciate a lot of aspects of it.…

So, let's take a look at a couple…of CPUs I've got laying around right now.…Alright, so, what we've got…in front of us here are some fairly typical CPUs…I don't even know if you can read those,…not that terribly important,…but what I have here are…the two major manufacturers of CPUs.…These are made by a company called AMD…and these are made by a company called Intel.…Odds are good you've probably heard of both of them.…There are other people who make CPUs,…but these two are the big guys,…they got 99.9 percent of the entire CPU market right now.…

Now, when we're talking about CPUs, we use make and model.…