Processor Prodigy Quiz Test your knowledge about computer processors and see how well you fare in this challenging quiz! rihanna80 published on September 05, 2023 Stacked 1/10 Which company developed the first commercial microprocessor? Intel Intelrc AMD Motorola 2/10 What does CPU stand for? Central Processing Unit Computer Processing Unit Central Processor Unit Computer Processor Unit 3/10 Which generation of processors introduced the 64-bit architecture? 1st generation 2nd generation 3rd generation 4th generation 4/10 What is the purpose of a heat sink in a processor? To increase power consumption To reduce processing speed To dissipate heat To increase data storage 5/10 Which processor architecture is commonly used in smartphones and tablets? x86 PowerPC ARM MIPS 6/10 What was the first processor to break the 1 GHz barrier? Intel Pentium III Intel Pentium 4 AMD Athlon IBM POWER3 7/10 Which company introduced hyper-threading technology in processors? AMD Motorola IBM Intel 8/10 What is the function of a cache memory in a processor? To store the operating system To store data permanently To store frequently accessed data for faster processing To store the BIOS 9/10 Which processor family shares its architecture with graphic processing units (GPUs)? Intel Core AMD Ryzen Intel Xeon IBM POWER 10/10 What is the nanometer (nm) size typically used to describe modern processors? 32nm 7nm 16nm 45nm