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11 Cards in this Set
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system unit
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a case that contains electronic components of the computer used to process data
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chip
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a small piece pf semiconducting material,usually silicon, on which integrated circuits are etched
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processor
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interprets and carries out the basic instructions that operate a computer
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microprocessor
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a personal computer processor chip
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multi-core processor
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a chip with two or more separate processor cores
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dual-core processor
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a chip that contains two separate processor cores
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quad-core processor
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a chip with four separate processor cores
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control unit
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the component of a processor that directs and coordinates most of the operations in the computer
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arithmetic logic unit
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performs arithmetic,comparison, and other operations
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clock speed
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measured by the number of ticks per second. It is the pace of the system clock
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gigahertz
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equals one billion ticks of the system clock per second
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