Hardware

Hardware

1. CPU

   • Central Processing Unit
     • it is the central process unit and therefore it is where all processes are held before going through the FDE cycle
   • FDE
     • Fetch Decode Execute cycle
       • it fetches the instructions then decodes that instruction and once these are done it executes the instruction
   • clock speed
     • The clock speed is how fast an instruction can be processed
   • cores
     • The number of cores determine how many instructions can be processed at a time