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processor

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


NOUN
central processing unit
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Camera and audio data is processed in a secure container on the processor, so neither Apple nor apps can access it.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 13, 2026

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

From Science Daily ● Oct. 3, 2026

The team found that the processor could also become more capable by increasing the physical depth of its passive optical decoder without substantially increasing energy use or inference latency.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 1, 2026

Hormel Foods has agreed to acquire Brakebush Brothers, a family-owned value-added chicken processor, for about $1.055 billion.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 30, 2026

“LORE uses the term self-sufficient museum. They have several of these. This is an older version of a virtual assistant. She uses a projection processor, as opposed to an integrated processor.”

From "The Manifestor Prophecy" by Angie Thomas

Demand for their processors collapse because the compute market is saturated, and the money they lent for past sales doesn’t all get paid back.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 1, 2026

This is especially important for the development of large quantum processors.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 26, 2026

But wait — he has no soul, just wires, processors, fluid and whatnot, plus a set of AI personas guiding his interactions with the human world.

From Salon ● Oct. 23, 2026

Its suppliers receive orders for processors, networking, power systems and cooling.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 22, 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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