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    computer architecture. As a result, shared memory computer architectures do not scale as well as distributed memory systems do. Processorprocessor and...
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    sending output to a printer. This would lead to processor being "idle" (unused). To keep the processor busy at all times, the execution of such a program...
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    central processing unit (CPU), also called a central processor, main processor, or just processor, is the primary processor in a given computer. Its electronic...
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  • A word processor (WP) is a device or computer program that provides for input, editing, formatting, and output of text, often with some additional features...
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    An embedded system is a specialized computer system—a combination of a computer processor, computer memory, and input/output peripheral devices—that has...
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    Sycamore is a transmon superconducting quantum processor created by Google's Artificial Intelligence division. It has 53 qubits. In 2019, Sycamore completed...
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    A front-end processor (FEP), or a communications processor, is a small-sized computer which interfaces to the host computer, a number of networks, such...
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  • neural processing unit (NPU), also known as AI accelerator or deep learning processor, is a class of specialized hardware accelerator or computer system...
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  • A processor register is a quickly accessible location available to a computer's processor. Registers usually consist of a small amount of fast storage...
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  • Broadband Engine (Cell/B.E.) is a 64-bit reduced instruction set computer (RISC) multi-core processor and microarchitecture developed by Sony, Toshiba, and IBM—an...
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  • Look up processor in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Processor may refer to: Processor (computing) Central processing unit (CPU), the hardware within...
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  • In computing and computer science, a processor or processing unit is an electrical component (digital circuit) that performs operations on an external...
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  • In computing, a vector processor or array processor is a central processing unit (CPU) that implements an instruction set where its instructions are designed...
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    Elbrus-1K2. a 10-processor computer, with superscalar, out-of-order execution and reduced instruction set computer (RISC) processors. Elbrus 2 (1984)...
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    by using RISC microprocessors. The varieties of RISC processor design include the ARC processor, the DEC Alpha, the AMD Am29000, the ARM architecture...
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  • language processing (NLP) is a subfield of computer science and especially artificial intelligence. It is primarily concerned with providing computers with...
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    of computer architectures: Quantum computer vs. Chemical computer Scalar processor vs. Vector processor Non-Uniform Memory Access (NUMA) computers Register...
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    Processor power dissipation or processing unit power dissipation is the process in which computer processors consume electrical energy, and dissipate this...
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    graphics processor". IEEE Computer Society. Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers. Retrieved 1 November 2019. Information Processing Society...
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    A multi-core processor (MCP) is a microprocessor on a single integrated circuit (IC) with two or more separate central processing units (CPUs), called...
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    signal processing became widely used with specialized digital signal processor chips in the 1980s. A signal is a function x ( t ) {\displaystyle x(t)}...
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    but the definition of MSU varies from processor to processor so that MSUs are useless for comparing processor performance. World's Top Supercomputer...
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  • Processor design is a subfield of computer science and computer engineering (fabrication) that deals with creating a processor, a key component of computer...
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  • image processing is the use of a digital computer to process digital images through an algorithm. As a subcategory or field of digital signal processing, digital...
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    A quantum computer is a computer that exploits quantum mechanical phenomena. On small scales, physical matter exhibits properties of both particles and...
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    Coprocessor (redirect from Co-processor)
    A coprocessor is a computer processor used to supplement the functions of the primary processor (the CPU). Operations performed by the coprocessor may...
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  • Processor Communications through Free-Space Optics". TENCON '94. IEEE Region 10's Ninth Annual International Conference. Theme: Frontiers of Computer...
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    computational logic and design of computer hardware, from individual processor components, microcontrollers, personal computers to supercomputers and embedded...
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    processor (or multiple-issue processor) is a CPU that implements a form of parallelism called instruction-level parallelism within a single processor...
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    an increasing trend to add more cores to a processor—with each acting as if it were an independent processor—for increased parallelism. The internal bus...
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