microprocessor
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4.2
- noun
- /ˌmaɪkroʊˈprɒsɛsər/
- Specialized
- The new gaming console features a powerful microprocessor that enhances graphics and performance.
- microprocessor chip
- microprocessor architecture
- microprocessor system
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Watch on YouTubeAnd I started at the beginning buying a microprocessor and some other chips and assembling a very simple computer.
- And I started at the beginning buying a microprocessor and some other chips and assembling a very simple computer.
- So Apple developed a really good microprocessor design team.
- This, this is far, far more detailed than anyone is learning about microprocessors in school today.
- Right now, Big Little is in the news because Intel has just launched its latest Order Lake microprocessors, which use a Big Little configuration.
- And so the reason why the personal computer killed digital equipment in the mainframe computers was the microprocessor was extendable upmarket.
- I just recently talked to Jim Keller, who's sort of like the the famed architect in the, in the microprocessor world.
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Richard Cane had made his first fortune in microprocessors, and then used it to build a vast online retail marketplace and green technology empire.
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What Intel has done for the microprocessor, we are gonna do for the home computer.
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So Apple developed a really good microprocessor design team.
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OK, so on our computer system, if we look at the lowest layer, we have this, we have our microprocessor down here, OK.
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Each site was designed to include all the representative details of an actual microprocessor chip application.
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In a few months he creates a revolutionary type of microprocessor.
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Delay on such lines is likely to limit the achievement of even higher microprocessor clock frequencies.
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And I started at the beginning buying a microprocessor and some other chips and assembling a very simple computer.
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Indeed, Intel recently argued that the microprocessor can become the most energy efficient emission reducing device ever created.
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Modern software algorithms and microprocessors provide more efficient wheel-slip control than past systems.
Academic text (1995)
Synonyms
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3.4
The central chip in a computer that runs instructions and handles data
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3.7
The main part of a computer that follows instructions to do tasks
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3.7
A very small electronic part inside devices like phones or computers that stores and uses information
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A small electronic chip with many connected parts that works like a complete electronic system
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Main chip in a computer that does most of the work and controls other parts
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The main chip in a computer that does most calculations and controls other parts
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A small electronic part inside a device that controls its actions and calculations
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A small electronic part inside a device that controls its actions and calculations
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Etymology
Microprocessor comes from micro- meaning 'small', the same 'micro' you see in microscope, and processor from process meaning 'to work on' or 'handle'. So a microprocessor is a small device that 'works on' or 'handles' the computer's instructions.