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processor

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


NOUN
central processing unit
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The exchange took part in a trial run to tokenize securities that Wall Street firms keep at Depository Trust & Clearing, a leading trade processor.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 16, 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

Massive volumes of video could initially pass through the parallel optical processor.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 1, 2026

Entry-level roles in fields heavily exposed to AI, like software developers and customer-service representatives, are shrinking the most, data from the Stanford Digital Economy Lab and payroll processor ADP Research show.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 26, 2026

The processor was slower than a sloth by current standards, but it was fine for my needs.

From "Ready Player One: A Novel" by Ernest Cline

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

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 22, 2026

Nasdaq-listed CoreWeave—which, like Firmus, owns processors as well as the buildings that house them—is valued at about US$37 billion and has more than 50 centers in operation.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 8, 2026

Taiwan is home to hardware production giants TSMC, which turns Nvidia's cutting-edge designs into silicon components, and Foxconn, which assembles the processors to make data centre servers.

From Barron's ● Oct. 8, 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

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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