Stands for “central processing unit.” Basically, it’s a microprocessorA computer chip that does computing work for a computer. It may do general work (like in your home computer) or it may do specialized work (like some of the processors in your smartphone). – the main one in the computer. Things get a bitThe smallest unit of information. It is a shortened form of "binary digit." Since it's binary, it can have only two values -- typically 0 and 1. more complicated because, these days, there may be more than one microprocessor. But you can safely think of all of them together as the CPU.