CPU - Pipeline (Cycle)

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pipeline

A computer (ie CPU) essentially implements this process:

  1. reads the instruction pointer,
  2. fetches the next instruction from a storage device
  3. decode the instruction
  4. execute it,
  5. increments the instruction pointer
  6. and then goes back to step one.

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