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

processing functions (otherwise it may be considered on a discrete application processor). Higher-performance SoCs are often paired with dedicated and physically...

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

Snapdragon QSD8250 was released in December 2007. It included the first 1 GHz processor for mobile phones. Qualcomm introduced its "Krait" microarchitecture in...

A multi-core processor is a microprocessor on a single integrated circuit with two or more separate processing units, called cores (for example, dual-core...

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...

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...

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...

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

Windows CE 5.0 and Windows Embedded CE 6.0 it is referred to as the Command Processor Shell. Its implementations differ between operating systems, but the behavior...

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

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...

Cell processor was introduced in concert with Sony's PlayStation 3 Slim. By November 2009, IBM had discontinued the development of a Cell processor with...

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...

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...

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

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

ending -ium since the processor would otherwise have been named 80586 using that convention. Pentium was Intel's flagship processor line for over a decade...

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

An embedded system is a computer system—a combination of a computer processor, computer memory, and input/output peripheral devices—that has a dedicated...