central processor

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They integrate a central processor with the powerful graphics processing units for which the company is famous.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 22, 2026

For more than two decades, VMware's tools have been used by businesses to divvy up the computing power in central processor chips, which are the brains of traditional servers.

From Reuters • Aug. 22, 2023

Such a system involves a skinlike base that can flex and stretch, equipped with a power supply, various sensors and ways to send the sensor information to a central processor.

From Scientific American • Jun. 30, 2022

Imagine using any object around you—a frying pan, a glass paperweight—as the central processor in a neural network, a type of artificial intelligence that loosely mimics the brain to perform complex tasks.

From Science Magazine • Jan. 26, 2022

Term originally referring to the cabinet containing the central processor unit or `main frame' of a room-filling Stone Age batch machine.

From The Jargon File, Version 4.2.2, 20 Aug 2000 by Steele, Guy L.