Central processing unit

Quality:

Central processing unit - central computer component that executes instructions. Article "Central processing unit" in English Wikipedia has 87.4 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 112 references and 28 sections.

In this language version of Wikipedia the article has the best quality. Also, this article is the most popular in that language version.

Achievements in all the time:

English Wikipedia:

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The 2173^rd most popular in English Wikipedia.

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The 2980^th most editable in English Wikipedia.

Global Wikipedia:

The 1514^th most popular in all topics.

The 2629^th most popular in AI.

Achievements in the last month:

Global Wikipedia:

The 10000^th most popular in AI in the last month.

In June 2025 the article "Central processing unit" was edited by 7 authors in English Wikipedia and written by 21 authors in all languages (10000^th place).

Since the creation of article "Central processing unit", its content was written by 1355 registered users of English Wikipedia (2980^th place) and edited by 4648 registered Wikipedia users in all languages (2629^th place).

The article is cited 6705 times in English Wikipedia (3191^st place) and cited 39521 times in all languages (4148^th place).

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #112 in March 2001
• Global: #116 in March 2001

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #26 in September 2013
• Global: #48 in September 2013

There are 49 language versions for this article in the WikiRank database (of the considered 55 Wikipedia language editions).

The quality and popularity assessment was based on Wikipédia dumps from July 1, 2025 (including revision history and pageviews for previous years).

The table below shows the language versions of the article with the highest quality.

#	Language	Quality grade	Quality score
1	English (en) Central processing unit		87.3573
2	Persian (fa) واحد پردازش مرکزی		81.927
3	Chinese (zh) 中央处理器		69.3002
4	Tamil (ta) மையச் செயற்பகுதி		64.9384
5	Vietnamese (vi) CPU		64.6594
6	Serbo-Croatian (sh) Centralna procesorska jedinica		62.9627
7	Finnish (fi) Suoritin		57.0112
8	Spanish (es) Unidad central de procesamiento		56.4435
9	Esperanto (eo) Ĉefprocesoro		54.6048
10	Slovak (sk) CPU		54.2315

The following table shows the most popular language versions of the article.

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Central processing unit		30 771 059
2	Spanish (es) Unidad central de procesamiento		12 315 391
3	Russian (ru) Центральный процессор		6 347 983
4	Japanese (ja) CPU		4 953 528
5	Italian (it) CPU		2 820 294
6	Chinese (zh) 中央处理器		2 002 908
7	Portuguese (pt) Unidade central de processamento		1 681 999
8	Arabic (ar) وحدة معالجة مركزية		1 529 798
9	Thai (th) หน่วยประมวลผลกลาง		1 520 589
10	Indonesian (id) Satuan pengolahan pusat		1 222 113

The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest popularity in the last month.

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Central processing unit		49 776
2	Spanish (es) Unidad central de procesamiento		6 124
3	Russian (ru) Центральный процессор		6 021
4	Japanese (ja) CPU		4 130
5	Chinese (zh) 中央处理器		3 355
6	Simple English (simple) Central processing unit		3 006
7	Portuguese (pt) Unidade central de processamento		1 842
8	Italian (it) CPU		1 729
9	Thai (th) หน่วยประมวลผลกลาง		1 169
10	Vietnamese (vi) CPU		1 116

The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest.

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Central processing unit		1 355
2	Russian (ru) Центральный процессор		294
3	Spanish (es) Unidad central de procesamiento		288
4	Italian (it) CPU		247
5	Chinese (zh) 中央处理器		180
6	Japanese (ja) CPU		160
7	Hebrew (he) מעבד		140
8	Hungarian (hu) Central processing unit		138
9	Persian (fa) واحد پردازش مرکزی		129
10	Portuguese (pt) Unidade central de processamento		109

The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest in the last month.

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Central processing unit		7
2	Indonesian (id) Satuan pengolahan pusat		3
3	Thai (th) หน่วยประมวลผลกลาง		2
4	Chinese (zh) 中央处理器		2
5	Czech (cs) Centrální procesorová jednotka		1
6	Greek (el) Κεντρική Μονάδα Επεξεργασίας		1
7	Esperanto (eo) Ĉefprocesoro		1
8	Italian (it) CPU		1
9	Japanese (ja) CPU		1
10	Korean (ko) 중앙 처리 장치		1

The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest number of citations.

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