central processing unit

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The Vera Rubin “platform,” as Nvidia calls it, consists of six chips, including the Vera central processing unit, which Huang said delivers twice the performance per watt “of the world’s most advanced CPUs.”

From MarketWatch • Jan. 5, 2026

In a revolutionary breakthrough, these data-center chips no longer act independently like the central processing unit in your laptop.

From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 3, 2025

Over the past few years, Intel has lost ground in both the personal-computer and server central processing unit markets, largely due to sub-par chips compared to similar offerings from AMD and Arm.

From Barron's • Oct. 13, 2025

A readout of the machine's central processing unit "indicated that the escalator had stopped after a built-in safety mechanism on the comb step was triggered at the top of the escalator", he added.

From BBC • Sep. 23, 2025

Online ——— In this book, it signifies the act of being in direct communication with a remote computer's central processing unit.

From The Online World by De Presno, Odd