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Central Processing Unit

Central Processing Unit or CPU is the primary chipset which undertakes arithmetic, control, I/O and logic instructions from software.

Modern CPU are typically multi-core which means multiple CPU exist in physical silicon and thus multiple instructions can be performed at the same time in parallel.

Virtualisation adds a further abstraction layer on-top of the physical CPU core capability, which allows parallelism at the virtual machine layer and competition between virtual cores for physical core time.

Pipe Ten’s compute infrastructure and the underlying physical processors are continuously refreshed to take advantage of new technologies and efficiencies.