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central processing unit

noun as in main part of computer

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

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.

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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.

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I do not see my patients as an assemblage of data points in the way that they, perhaps, do not see me as merely a central processing unit in the flesh.

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The company said the Azure Cobalt 100 central processing unit, the software giant’s first in-house processor, is available in preview starting Tuesday for customers of the Azure cloud-computing service.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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