🧠 How CPUs Handle the Outside World 🌐 | CPU Interrupts Explained Simply

Ever wondered how your computer’s CPU knows when something happens in the real world? 🤯
In this episode, Matt Godbolt dives deep into CPU interrupts — the essential mechanism that allows your CPU to react to external signals like keyboard input, timers, or hardware events. ⌨️⏲️💻

📌 What are interrupts?
📌 How do they work at the low level?
📌 What happens when your CPU is interrupted mid-task?

Join us on this journey into the inner workings of modern processors and learn how the CPU stays in control without missing a beat. Perfect for computer science students, hobbyists, or anyone curious about how computers really work!

🎥 Part of the Low-Level Programming series on Computerphile.