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The purple square with pins is what I thought was the CPU (or rather what goes in it) while the square next to it in with red is what's confusing me. I apologize for not knowing the terms too well as I'm still quite new to actually trying to tinker with a computer's inner workings and thank you...

Opening up an HP notebook and removing the heat sink I see what I think is a CPU (because it has pins) but then I read that AMD E-300 APUs are soldered into the laptop (I do see another chip soldered not too far from what I think is the CPU). I'm a noob with computers but any clarification would...