Microprocessors
Intel
The world's largest manufacturer of computer chips
Microarchitecture Codenames
Intel Skylake
Intel Broadwell
Intel Haswell
Intel Ivy Bridge
Intel Sandy Bridge
Founded in 1968.
Real-Time Clock - RTC
Clock that keeps track of the time even when the computer is turned off
Special battery
CPU time
The amount of time the CPU is actually executing instructions
AMD
AMD is challenging Intel with a set of Intel-compatible microprocessors
Microarchitecture Codenames
Jaguar core
Bobcat core
Bulldozer module
K10 core
K8 core
Founded in 1969.
Overclock
Runnning a microprocessor at faster speeds
Control unit (CU)
Extracts instructions from memory and decodes and executes them
Arithmetic Logic Unit (ALU)
Performs arithmetic and logical operations
CPU socket
Connector on the motherboard
Processor sockets use a pin grid array (PGA)
Houses a CPU