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title: "What's inside of a CPU?"  
description: "What's inside of a CPU?"  
author: "Sandra Emily"  
published: 2022-05-12  
canonical: https://answers.mindstick.com/qa/97337/what-s-inside-of-a-cpu  
category: "troubleshooting"  
tags: ["troubleshooting", "cpu"]  
reading_time: 1 minute  

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# What's inside of a CPU?

What's inside of a CPU?

## Answers

### Answer by Hitesh Vohra

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- A **[CPU](https://answers.mindstick.com/qa/97336/what-are-the-main-parts-of-a-cpu)** is an integrated circuit, sometimes known as a chip, at the hardware level. Millions or billions of microscopic electrical bits are 'integrated' into integrated circuits, which are then organised into circuits and packed into a small box.
- Some layers are real things, like as the chip and transistors, while others are abstractions, such as logic circuits and gates.
- It's amazing that we can combine relatively simple components like logic gates to produce CPUs that power complicated devices like phones, computers, and even self-driving cars.

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