Q. CPU gets the address of the next instruction to be processed from:

A
Instruction register
B
Memory address register
C
Index register
D
Program counter
Solution:

The program counter (PC), commonly called the instruction pointer (IP) in Intel x86 and Itanium microprocessors, and sometimes called the instruction address register (IAR), the instruction counter, or just part of the instruction sequencer, is a processor register that indicates where a computer is in its program ..

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