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The microprocessor is an integrated circuit that elaborates information in the form of digital signals. Not to be confused with a microcontroller, which embeds many additional devices to control embedded systems.

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Microprocessor instructions per cycle clock [duplicate]

Could you please explain this issue: can a microprocessor perform on average more than one instruction per clock cycle? …
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Why does a processor get hot?

I would like to understand how the computation process causes the processor to get hot. I understand that the heat is generated by the transistors. How does the transistors generate the heat exactly …
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