How to Use microprocessor in a Sentence

microprocessor

noun

• It is not known whether the microprocessor played a role in either crash.
  — Chris Isidore, CNN, 29 June 2019
• John and my idea was, in this fast-changing microprocessor, let’s do the opposite.
  — Eric Johnson, Recode, 25 Apr. 2018
• Video signals sent into the disk controller are read by the microprocessor.
  — IEEE Spectrum, 2 July 2023
• But microprocessors must be made from a single crystal.
  — IEEE Spectrum, 22 Sep. 2025
• Now there's a new breed of neural net that can run entirely on cheap, low-power microprocessors.
  — Clive Thompson, Wired, 21 Jan. 2020
• If a phone were a PC, the microprocessor inside of it would be front and center.
  — Mark Hachman, PCWorld, 5 Dec. 2018
• But amid all this discontent, the microprocessor was born.
  — Steve Booren, Denver Post, 17 Aug. 2025
• Well, in this fast-changing microprocessor, let’s do the opposite.
  — Recode Staff, Recode, 17 May 2018
• Likewise, in the second prototype, the disk drives were controlled by the main microprocessor.
  — IEEE Spectrum, 2 July 2023
• The hard part was finding one, due to a global shortage of microprocessor chips that has slashed auto production worldwide.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 21 Apr. 2021
• For one, although the microprocessor is built on a substrate of flexible plastic, it was tested on a flat--not bendy--surface.
  — Christopher Intagliata, Scientific American, 24 Aug. 2021
• The sensors on nine of those 10 tags wouldn't communicate with their microprocessors, due to a firmware issue.
  — The Arizona Republic, 20 Mar. 2023
• The technology, used in some iPhone and iPads, was a microprocessor that performed tasks faster.
  — Sarah Hauer, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 27 July 2017
• Penang has long been an important hub for the manufacture and processing of microprocessors and is now moving up the value chain.
  — Charlie Campbell, TIME, 21 July 2024
• That’s more of a function of some stickiness in our servo gear train and our power-hungry microprocessor than any fundamental law.
  — IEEE Spectrum, 16 Mar. 2016
• The microprocessor packs 9 billion transistors onto a chip in a small package that can power all of a car’s self-driving features.
  — Aaron Pressman, Fortune, 9 Jan. 2018
• In 1977, after decades of research, the first microprocessor knee was released.
  — Jothy Rosenberg, Forbes, 11 Dec. 2023
• The units, which include a camera and microprocessor, record when curb space is occupied near the shop and relay that information to the drivers.
  — Washington Post, 29 Aug. 2020
• That information is analyzed by a microprocessor, worn on the belt, which determines when to send power to the motors.
  — IEEE Spectrum, 1 June 2017
• For instance, the students all needed to know about connecting things like accelerometers to a microprocessor early in the project.
  — Chris Lee, Ars Technica, 29 Dec. 2021
• Of course, what gets encoded on one end must be decoded on the other; on the receiving end the microprocessor reassembles the audio and video from the bits.
  — Thomas Wiegand, IEEE Spectrum, 25 Aug. 2011
• The microprocessor will be available in 2028.
  — Bloomberg, Mercury News, 25 June 2026
• The result is a much tighter control over the flow of current, which in modern microprocessors can fairly easily sneak across the transistor when it’s supposed to be shut off.
  — Rachel Courtland, IEEE Spectrum, 28 Sep. 2016
• The maker of chipsets and other microprocessors beat analysts’ earnings and revenue estimates in the third quarter.
  — Fred Imbert, CNBC, 5 Nov. 2025
• The cause of the new public relations crisis is the disclosure last week of two new ways to filch data from the microprocessors inside nearly all of the world’s computers.
  — Don Clark, New York Times, 7 Jan. 2018
• And in those tiny but vital microprocessors lies the battle for global supremacy between China and the US.
  — Harriet Marsden, The Week Uk, theweek, 3 July 2024
• The system features an all-weather shield, secure locking bracket, state-of-the-art microprocessors, and a tough Lexan housing.
  — Kevin Brouillard, Travel + Leisure, 28 Apr. 2023
• Sam Kang Zeloof is working on the Z3, a chip that will be capable of adding 1 + 1, as a step to a full microprocessor.
  — Tom Simonite, Wired, 20 Jan. 2022
• This reads the brush bars resistance against the surface on which its cleaning and communicates that to the vacuum’s motor and the battery’s microprocessors.
  — Sarah Bogdan, Good Housekeeping, 20 Mar. 2019
• Zilog had quickly captured the midrange microprocessor market with its Z80 CPU.
  — Benj Edwards, PCWorld, 8 June 2018