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processor

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


NOUN
central processing unit
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Hiring showed glimmers of improvement, though, and the payroll processor ADP reported that private employers added 86,000 jobs last month.

From MarketWatch ● Nov. 5, 2026

Camera and audio data is processed in a secure container on the processor, so neither Apple nor apps can access it.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 13, 2026

They also challenged the processor with videos produced using Google's VEO-3 model.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 1, 2026

The team found that the processor could also become more capable by increasing the physical depth of its passive optical decoder without substantially increasing energy use or inference latency.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 1, 2026

“LORE uses the term self-sufficient museum. They have several of these. This is an older version of a virtual assistant. She uses a projection processor, as opposed to an integrated processor.”

From "The Manifestor Prophecy" by Angie Thomas

Today, Nvidia's leading processors are widely regarded as the gold standard for AI development.

From BBC ● Nov. 12, 2026

"Making all of those processors communicate efficiently while continuously evolving trillions of interacting pieces of information is itself an extraordinary feat of computer engineering."

From Science Daily ● Nov. 12, 2026

The company does not make AI processors themselves, like those designed by Nvidia, but supplies the chips that help deliver electricity from the grid to the sites.

From Barron's ● Nov. 10, 2026

Marvell CEO Matt Murphy said that Lumentum’s laser technology and Marvell’s digital signal processors would together create advantages in the marketplace.

From MarketWatch ● Nov. 2, 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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