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processor

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


NOUN
central processing unit
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The project has received 40 million processor hours on the UK's national supercomputers.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 3, 2026

In experiments using visible light, the processor examined 15 Celeb-DF videos simultaneously during each optical pass.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 1, 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

In February, the swindlers attacked Polymarket, linking stolen debit cards to thousands of new accounts, the payment processor Checkout.com told Polymarket.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 20, 2026

It had a new overclocked processor that was so fast its cycle-time bordered on precognition.

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

HPE launched a new line of enterprise servers powered by AMD’s latest processors.

From Barron's ● Oct. 7, 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

The company initially catered heavily to cryptocurrency miners before the AI boom redirected its attention toward computing using Nvidia’s GPU processors.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 17, 2026

Initially, processors squeezed oil from the beans mechanically.

From Salon ● Sep. 13, 2026

Some other Japanese industries are organized very differently from the food processors.

From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond




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