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The brain that thinks one impossibly fast thought at a time, billions of times per second.
means The central processing unit, the chip that executes a computer's instructions and does its core calculations.
from Acronym for central processing unit, from the dawn of computing when one big cabinet held the whole brain and everything else was peripheral.
SpeedModern chips run billions of cycles per second.
Tiny transistorsBillions of switches packed onto a fingernail-sized chip.
Heat problemFaster thinking means more heat to dump.
CoresModern CPUs juggle multiple brains at once.