https://lab.artur-rios.tech/tags/processors/Recent content in Processors on Artur Rios LabHugoen-usTue, 20 Oct 2026 15:00:00 +0000https://lab.artur-rios.tech/fundamentals/processors/Tue, 20 Oct 2026 15:00:00 +0000https://lab.artur-rios.tech/fundamentals/processors/<p><a href="https://lab.artur-rios.tech/fundamentals/what-is-programming/">What Is Programming?</a> described programs as precise descriptions of a process, and <a href="https://lab.artur-rios.tech/fundamentals/operating-systems/">What Is an Operating System?</a> described the software that shares a machine between them. This article goes one level further down, to the part that does the work: the processor. It covers what a processor is, how it got from vacuum tubes to tens of billions of transistors, the main ways processors are designed, and, in some detail, how a modern CPU turns instructions into results.</p>