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central processing unit
nounDefinition of central processing unit
: cpu
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Libratus got around this bottleneck by only using searches in the final two (out of four) betting rounds—but that solution still required the use of 100 central processing units (CPUs) in a game with only two players. — Jeremy Hsu, Scientific American, "AI Conquers Six-Player Poker," 11 July 2019 The result was a virtual parallel processor that could run off a single central processing unit. — Stephen Witt, WIRED, "Apollo 11: Mission Out of Control," 24 June 2019 The preferred architecture no longer features a single central processing unit (CPU) augmented with random access memory (RAM) and a hard drive for long-term storage. — Jennifer Ouellette, Quanta Magazine, "The Future Fabric of Data Analysis," 9 Oct. 2013 To that end, components of the A12X include: A CPU (central processing unit), which carries out most instructions that are not specialized to other processing units. — Samuel Axon, Ars Technica, "Apple walks Ars through the iPad Pro’s A12X system on a chip," 7 Nov. 2018 Traditionally, the brain in most PCs has been the CPU, or the central processing unit. — Brian Fung, chicagotribune.com, "How video games helped give us the self-driving car," 5 July 2017 For enterprises, the virtual gold rush can put corporate networks at risk and inflate cloud central processing unit usage, adding cost. — Bloomberg.com, "Sweden Is Becoming a Haven for Cryptojackers," 23 Mar. 2018 These new bugs are actually in the computer’s hardware — specifically, in the central processing unit. — J. D. Biersdorfer, New York Times, "Keeping Up With the Meltdown and Spectre Bugs," 15 Jan. 2018 The security flaws are located in each computer's brain, known as the central processing unit or CPU. — Alyssa Newcomb, NBC News, "Meltdown, Spectre chip flaws raise questions about hardware security," 4 Jan. 2018These example sentences are selected automatically from various online news sources to reflect current usage of the word 'central processing unit.' Views expressed in the examples do not represent the opinion of Merriam-Webster or its editors. Send us feedback.
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