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The Journey Inside(SM): Introduction to Computers
Fetch, Decode, and Execute in a Chip
Fetch, Decode, and Execute in a Chip
The fetch, decode, and execute steps each take place in a specific area of a microprocessor. Transistors handle each of these steps (and a microprocessor has millions of these transistors). It is not obvious looking at a chip which group of transistors does what.

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