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a case that contains electronic components of the computer used to process data
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system unit
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main circuit board of the system unit
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motherboard, system board
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small piece of semiconducting material, usually silicon, on which integrated circuits are etched
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chip
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interprets and carries out basic instructions that operate a computer
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CPU, central processing unit
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a chip with two or more separate processor cores
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Multi-core processor
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component of the processor that directs and coordinates most of the operations in the computer
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control unit
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component of the processor, performs arithmetic, comparison and other operations
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ALU, arithmetic logic unit
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control the timing of all computer operations, generates a regular electronic pulses or ticks
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System clock
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pace of the system clock, measured by the number of ticks per second
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clock speed
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