Hardware and software, the CPU and the fetch–decode–execute cycle, and the memory hierarchy.
A computer system is hardware controlled by software.
Hardware and the CPU
The CPU processes instructions. Its key parts are the control unit (directs operations), the ALU (arithmetic and logic) and registers (fast temporary stores). Performance depends on clock speed, cores and cache.
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