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Skills: Processor (Disambiguation) System On A Chip Microcontroller Digital Signal Processor CPU

A microprocessor is a central processing unit contained on a single integrated circuit or a few integrated circuits. It accepts binary data as input, processes it according to stored instructions, and provides results as output. Integrating the CPU onto a single chip greatly reduces processing costs and increases reliability compared to earlier computers which used many circuit boards. As microprocessor designs improve, manufacturing costs generally stay the same, while capacity continues increasing, rendering other computer forms obsolete.

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Skills: Processor (Disambiguation) System On A Chip Microcontroller Digital Signal Processor CPU

A microprocessor is a central processing unit contained on a single integrated circuit or a few integrated circuits. It accepts binary data as input, processes it according to stored instructions, and provides results as output. Integrating the CPU onto a single chip greatly reduces processing costs and increases reliability compared to earlier computers which used many circuit boards. As microprocessor designs improve, manufacturing costs generally stay the same, while capacity continues increasing, rendering other computer forms obsolete.

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See also: Processor (disambiguation), System on a chip, Microcontroller, and Digital signal processor

This article is about microprocessors. For central processing units, see CPU. (A Microprocessor is a type of CPU).
A microprocessor is a computer processor that incorporates the functions of a central processing unit on a
single integrated circuit (IC),[1] or at most a few integrated circuits.[2] The microprocessor is a
multipurpose, clock driven, register based, digital integrated circuit that accepts binary data as input, processes it
according to instructions stored in its memory, and provides results as output. Microprocessors contain
both combinational logic and sequential digital logic. Microprocessors operate on numbers and symbols represented in
the binary number system.
The integration of a whole CPU onto a single or a few integrated circuits greatly reduced the cost of processing power.
Integrated circuit processors are produced in large numbers by highly automated processes, resulting in a low unit
price. Single-chip processors increase reliability because there are many fewer electrical connections that could fail. As
microprocessor designs improve, the cost of manufacturing a chip (with smaller components built on a semiconductor
chip the same size) generally stays the same according to Rock's law.
Before microprocessors, small computers had been built using racks of circuit boards with many medium- and small-
scale integrated circuits. Microprocessors combined this into one or a few large-scale ICs. Continued increases in
microprocessor capacity have since rendered other forms of computers almost completely obsolete (see history of
computing hardware), with one or more microprocessors used in everything from the smallest embedded
systems and handheld devices to the largest mainframes and supercomputers.

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