A modern micro processor has atleast 100 million transistors.
The Core i7 920 (D0 stepping) has approximately 781 million transistors.
4billion
It refers to the 14 nm transistors with haswell architecture
Microprocessor (processor or the central processing unit (CPU))
processor or CPU
on the order of a billion
Size, power, cost, and speed... The size of a CPU with individual transistors could easily require a room full of electronics, whereas a modern CPU chip is smaller than a small coin. The power of a CPU with individual transistors could easily be in the kilowatt or hundreds of kilowatts range, requiring specialized power systems, whereas a modern CPU chip only requires 25 to 100 watts per core. (At full load.) The cost of a CPU with individual transistors could easily be in the millions of dollars, whereas the modern CPU chip might only be a few hundred dollars. The speed of a CPU with individual transistors is limited by the length of the conductors. The speed of light is about one foot per nanosecond. (3 x 108 m/s divided by 1 x 109 ns/s) If you have a large, room size CPU, there are physical limits on how fast it can go. A modern CPU chip can easily run in the GHz range, an impossible feat for a room sized CPU.
In the sense that there are many dedicated processors, yes. Besides the CPU (which may be multi-processor itself), the video and many other components have their own dedicated processor.
Yes it is!
Data run's through a processor CPU = Core Processing Unit but yes CPU is the same thing as a Processor or ''Data Processor''
Control processor located in the CPU along with the ALU and I/O
Central Processor Unit --> CPU
The main component of modern computer chips is Silicon.