The chip has instructions like instructions in a cooking recipe, telling it what should be done step by step. The chip has an architecture that has instructions, with each instruction encoded in a binary format the processor can interpret. After that, it can process those and utilize the hardware depending on the instructions, and can even change the order of instructions you give it if something needs to wait. Ultimately, the OS loads the instruction data into memory and tells the processor to start executing it.
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