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CPU power dissipation
Central processing unit power dissipation
or
CPU power dissipation
is the process in which
central processing units
(CPUs) consume
electrical energy
, and dissipate this energy both by the action of the switching devices contained in the CPU (such as
transistors
or
vacuum tubes
) and by the energy lost in the form of
heat
due to the
impedance
of the
electronic circuits
.
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