Central processing unit

Quality:

Central processing unit - central computer component that executes instructions. Article “Central processing unit” in Hungarian Wikipedia has 47.1 points for quality (as of July 1, 2026). The article contains 28 references and 17 sections. The article also contains templates indicating quality issues, therefore its score was reduced by 8.31 points.

This article has the best quality in English Wikipedia. Also, this article is the most popular in that (Hungarian) language version.

Achievements in all the time:

Hungarian Wikipedia:

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The 461^st most popular in Hungarian Wikipedia.

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The 736^th most editable in Hungarian Wikipedia.

Global Wikipedia:

The 1764^th most popular in all topics.

The 2668^th most popular in AI.

Since the creation of article “Central processing unit”, its content was written by 139 registered users of Hungarian Wikipedia (736^th place) and edited by 4677 registered Wikipedia users in all languages (2668^th place).

The article is cited 1385 times in Hungarian Wikipedia (1743^rd place) and cited 41150 times in all languages (4127^th place).

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Hungarian): #26 in September 2008
• Global: #147 in March 2001

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Hungarian): #39 in September 2018
• Global: #56 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, 2026 (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		87.4992
2	Korean (ko) 중앙 처리 장치		86.1779
3	Persian (fa) واحد پردازش مرکزی		81.6996
4	Chinese (zh) 中央处理器		65.8217
5	Tamil (ta) மையச் செயற்பகுதி		64.4292
6	Vietnamese (vi) CPU		64.0246
7	Serbo-Croatian (sh) Centralna procesorska jedinica		63.5377
8	Hindi (hi) सेंट्रल प्रोसेसिंग यूनिट		59.1193
9	Finnish (fi) Suoritin		56.9623
10	Spanish (es) Unidad central de procesamiento		55.4589

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Central processing unit		31 063 250
2	Spanish (es) Unidad central de procesamiento		12 392 392
3	Japanese (ja) CPU		5 003 180
4	Russian (ru) Центральный процессор		3 366 811
5	Italian (it) CPU		2 820 139
6	Chinese (zh) 中央处理器		2 041 580
7	Portuguese (pt) Unidade central de processamento		1 699 695
8	Arabic (ar) وحدة معالجة مركزية		1 537 541
9	Thai (th) หน่วยประมวลผลกลาง		1 528 279
10	Indonesian (id) Unit pemroses pusat		1 228 965

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		26 940
2	Russian (ru) Центральный процессор		4 148
3	Spanish (es) Unidad central de procesamiento		3 445
4	Japanese (ja) CPU		3 246
5	Chinese (zh) 中央处理器		2 674
6	Persian (fa) واحد پردازش مرکزی		1 849
7	Italian (it) CPU		1 209
8	Simple English (simple) Central processing unit		1 027
9	Portuguese (pt) Unidade central de processamento		837
10	Hebrew (he) מעבד		437

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		1 374
2	Russian (ru) Центральный процессор		298
3	Spanish (es) Unidad central de procesamiento		290
4	Italian (it) CPU		250
5	Chinese (zh) 中央处理器		185
6	Japanese (ja) CPU		167
7	Hebrew (he) מעבד		142
8	Hungarian (hu) Central processing unit		139
9	Persian (fa) واحد پردازش مرکزی		132
10	Portuguese (pt) Unidade central de processamento		112

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		12
2	Russian (ru) Центральный процессор		2
3	Thai (th) หน่วยประมวลผลกลาง		2
4	Arabic (ar) وحدة معالجة مركزية		1
5	Serbo-Croatian (sh) Centralna procesorska jedinica		1
6	Turkish (tr) Merkezî işlem birimi		1
7	Urdu (ur) سی پی یو		1
8	Azerbaijani (az) Mərkəzi prosessor		0
9	Belarusian (be) Цэнтральны працэсар		0
10	Bulgarian (bg) Централен процесор		0

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

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