(Computer science) the part of a computer (a microprocessor chip) that does most of the data processing.
1 The answer sprang into his mind just as the hotel's central processor crashed.
2 The Real-Time Analysis and Critical Response Division in downtown LA is its central processor .
3 These data were properly transmitted to the central processor and should have resulted in an aborted sequence.
4 Instead of a brain, it has a " central processor . "
5 Someone has accessed the hotel's central processor .
6 Computing today is based on the von Neumann architecture: a central processor , and separate memory and data storage.
7 Interestingly, the console itself was just a container with a small screen, each game cart had its own central processor and memory chip.
8 Random code distribution, only the central processor can find them both and there's a lock on the system to prevent simultaneous access to both copies.
9 Williams left Apple this spring after more than nine years as chief architect for all Apple central processors and systems-on-a-chip.
10 But a trend toward including graphics horsepower on central processors is seen eroding demand for low-end graphics chips that Nvidia also sells.
11 Unlike central processors , or CPUs, which make huge calculations one after another, GPUs excel at carrying out several small calculations at once.
12 An IBM Central Processor Unit (CPU) is seen on a Hard Disk Drive (HDD) controller in Kiev, in this March 5, 2012 file photo.
13 An IBM Central Processor Unit (CPU) is seen on a Hard Disk Drive (HDD) controller in Kiev, in this file photo from March 5, 2012.
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