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central processor

NOUN
central processing unit
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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

In other words, neurons in sensory cortical areas and even in the hypothetical central processor cannot “see” events that happen in the world.

From Scientific American May 31, 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

Instead of a brain, it has a "central processor."

From The Hacker Crackdown, law and disorder on the electronic frontier by Bruce Sterling




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