what is a microprocessor ?

A microprocessor is an integrated circuit (ic) that contains a complete cpu on single chip the cpu is often called the brain of computer “this is because in humans, it is the brain that controls all body parts is also responsible for the processing all requests from different body parts similarly in computers it is the cpu that controls operation of all computer components and also processes data from various computer components.

  
 A microprocessor or CPU consists of a control unit and an arithmetic and logical unit (ALU). It is responsible for all the computational, arithmetic, logical and data processing task performed by the computer.  Every microprocessor has a fixed set of instruction for its operation......