Definition: Central Processing Unit: a formal term for the microprocessor chip that powers a personal computer. The Intel Pentium chip is one example of a CPU. The term sometimes also refers to the case that houses this chip.
The CPU, or Central Processing Unit, is the core of any computer, and, through the latter half of the 20th and into the 21st century, it has arguably been fundamental in revolutionising the way that mankind lives and works.
The real anchor point was perhaps the 1978 introduction of Intel's 8088 microprocessor to IBM's first PCs. Developments since then have been truly extraordinary, from basic dual processor solutions to those pushing at the very boundaries of science
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