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processor

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


NOUN
central processing unit
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Massive volumes of video could initially pass through the parallel optical processor.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 1, 2026

With only minimal fine-tuning, the optical processor achieved 94.80% accuracy and 97.61% sensitivity on previously unseen VEO-3 videos during experiments.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 1, 2026

Hormel Foods HRL -0.60%decrease; down pointing triangle has struck a deal to buy Brakebush Brothers, a family-owned value-added processor of chicken products, for about $1.055 billion.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 30, 2026

U.S. export controls forced Nvidia to take a $4.5 billion charge last year related to its China-focused H20 processor.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 21, 2026

The Owner stuck a tentative finger into the food processor, where his first batch of his mothers peanut butter sat, waiting.

From "A Tangle of Knots" by Lisa Graff

Its suppliers receive orders for processors, networking, power systems and cooling.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 22, 2026

It also sees Nvidia, whose data center processors power the AI revolution, make a move into personal computing, a sector dominated for decades by chips from Intel and Qualcomm.

From Barron's ● Oct. 7, 2026

The processors can be “bought in the secondary market at a spot price, and are also made by Chinese companies,” Luria noted.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 28, 2026

Counterintuitively, this means that organizations like Cornerstone can repurpose older silicon manufacturing equipment used for earlier generations of processors.

From BBC ● Sep. 22, 2026

Word processors have dictionaries, but not common sense—at least not yet.

From "Woe Is I" by Patricia T. O'Conner


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