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processing unit (CPU), also called a central processor, main processor, or just processor, is the primary processor in a given computer. Its electronic circuitry...

Television Interface Adaptor. Atari 8-bit computers (1979) had ANTIC, a video processor which interpreted instructions describing a "display list"—the way the...

A multi-core processor (MCP) is a microprocessor on a single integrated circuit (IC) with two or more separate central processing units (CPUs), called...

chips, such as cellular modems. Fundamentally, SoCs integrate one or more processor cores with critical peripherals. This comprehensive integration is conceptually...

A microprocessor is a computer processor for which the data processing logic and control is included on a single integrated circuit (IC), or a small number...

of the era generally shared memory between the processor and the framebuffer, which allowed the processor to quickly update the contents of the screen without...

at which the hardware supports parallelism, with multi-core and multi-processor computers having multiple processing elements within a single machine...

those that are based on processor registers, address buses, or data buses of that size. A computer that uses such a processor is a 64-bit computer. From...

A digital signal processor (DSP) is a specialized microprocessor chip, with its architecture optimized for the operational needs of digital signal processing...

(Cell/B.E.) is a 64-bit reduced instruction set computer (RISC) multi-core processor and microarchitecture developed by Sony, Toshiba, and IBM—an alliance...

A processor register is a quickly accessible location available to a computer's processor. Registers usually consist of a small amount of fast storage...

of IBM embedded products, eventually becoming the 16-register IBM ROMP processor used in the IBM RT PC. The RT PC was a rapid design implementing the RISC...

Pentium Pro lineage that predated Pentium 4. The first Intel Core desktop processor—and typical family member—came from the Conroe iteration, a 65 nm dual-core...

original Pentium was Intel's fifth generation processor, succeeding the i486; Pentium was Intel's flagship processor line for over a decade until the introduction...

Sycamore is a transmon superconducting quantum processor created by Google's Artificial Intelligence division. It has 53 qubits. In 2019, Sycamore completed...

NET 4.2, CE 5.0 and Embedded CE 6.0) it is referred to as the Command Processor Shell. Implementation differs between operating systems, but with significant...

favor of the Celeron processor, which had also replaced the 80486 brand. The P5 Pentium is the first superscalar x86 processor, meaning it was often...

a text interface is often called a command-line interpreter, command processor or shell. Examples of command-line interpreters include Nushell, DEC's...

In computing and computer science, a processor or processing unit is an electrical component (digital circuit) that performs operations on an external...

signal processing became widely used with specialized digital signal processor chips in the 1980s. A signal is a function x ( t ) {\displaystyle x(t)}...