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processor

[pros-es-er, proh-ses-] / ˈprɒs ɛs ər, ˈproʊ sɛs- /


NOUN
central processing unit
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“Hiring was more broad-based in May than we’ve seen in the last few years,” said Nela Richardson, chief economist at ADP, the U.S.’s largest processor of company payrolls.

From MarketWatch • Jun. 3, 2026

The company on Tuesday unveiled the latest iteration of its Majorana quantum processor, which it redesigned using AI.

From Barron's • Jun. 3, 2026

Nvidia announced the launch of its first processor for personal computers — and semiconductor stocks are having a mixed reaction.

From MarketWatch • Jun. 1, 2026

Snowflake expanded ties to Amazon Web Services with a $6 billion deal that will make it one of the cloud giant’s biggest customers for its general-purpose Graviton processor chips used inside AWS data centers.

From Barron's • May 28, 2026

But if the Stormbreakers were based on the round processor there couldn’t possibly be any need for such extremes—and anyway, this was like nothing Alex had ever seen before.

From "Stormbreaker" by Anthony Horowitz




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