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calculate, cipher, figure, reckon, work out
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Meanwhile, outside the Navy Moore’s Law, which says constant improvements in miniaturization technology allows computing power to double every eighteen to twenty four months, has ruled computers in the civilian sector. — Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, "The U.S. Navy Is Shrinking the Size of Its Gargantuan 70s-Era Computers," 26 Apr. 2019 For Microsoft the deal helps grow its cloud-computing business, which lags behind Amazon’s but has found willing customers like Kroger and Walmart, which are loath to line the pockets of Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos. — Dina Bass, The Seattle Times, "Kroger, Microsoft test futuristic grocery store in Redmond. Amazon, take note.," 7 Jan. 2019 Still, the client computing group—which includes PC chips—remains the company’s largest unit, bringing in more than half of its operating profit and revenue in the most recent year. — Maria Armental, WSJ, "Intel Grabs New CFO From Qualcomm," 2 Apr. 2019 To ease the rendering compute load, NGCodec showed off an FPGA board that compressed the streamed VR data in real time. — Mark Hachman, PCWorld, "5G could be the foundation of next-gen 'cloud VR'," 27 Mar. 2019 As Oracle continued to lose ground in that market, Mr. Ellison reorganized the engineering teams that develop the company’s cloud-computing services this summer, according to a person familiar with the internal discussions. — Jay Greene, WSJ, "Google’s Cloud-Computing Boss, Diane Greene, to Step Down," 16 Nov. 2018 Adding the veteran executive was seen as a coup for company, which has plowed money into the market for computing services delivered over the Internet. — BostonGlobe.com, "Barnes & Noble fires CEO for violating company policies," 3 July 2018 Bryant, who led Intel’s data center business and was one of the company’s highest ranked female executives, joined Google’s (goog, -2.11%) cloud computing unit in late November as chief operating officer. — Jonathan Vanian, Fortune, "Former Intel Executive Diane Bryant Is Leaving Google After Joining Last Fall," 3 July 2018 Amazon, Microsoft and Google are all significant players in renting out computing storage and services to others, a business known as cloud infrastructure that Amazon essentially invented about 12 years ago. — Amrith Ramkumar, WSJ, "Amazon Takes Market Cap Crown, Cementing Tech Power," 7 Jan. 2019These example sentences are selected automatically from various online news sources to reflect current usage of the word 'compute.' Views expressed in the examples do not represent the opinion of Merriam-Webster or its editors. Send us feedback.
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