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processor

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


NOUN
central processing unit
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Rosenblatt Securities analyst John McPeake noted last week that Rigetti had shipped a 9-qubit Novera quantum processor to the University of Saskatchewan in March.

From Barron's • Apr. 8, 2026

Reports of new U.S. rules to govern artificial-intelligence processor exports won’t help change that.

From Barron's • Apr. 3, 2026

Payments processor Block in February announced it was cutting nearly half of its staff, in a move Chief Executive Jack Dorsey said was due to AI.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 31, 2026

SK Hynix was an early leader in high-bandwidth memory, which enables processor chips made by the likes of Nvidia to carry out speedier AI computations.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 25, 2026

I pushed a food processor to the side.

From "Keep It Together, Keiko Carter" by Debbi Michiko Florence