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• n  a business engaged in processing agricultural products and preparing them for market
• n  someone who processes things (foods or photographs or applicants etc.)
• n  (computer science) the part of a computer (a microprocessor chip) that does most of the data processing

• Some critics claim that the only cook who really needs a food processor is one who must feed a dozen lumberjacks three times a day.
• Bill Buckley is high on word processors .
• A massively parallel processor is a collection of computers, or central processing units, linked together.

• central processing unit
• CPU
• C.P.U.
• central processor
• mainframe

News & Articles

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• Smartphones are Smarter with an All-In-One Processor
  The performance of your smartphone is influenced by many factors, including the operating system, manufacturer, and wireless carrier. But there’s one essential and often-overlooked element that’s largely responsible for the speed, efficiency, and battery life of your smartphone—the processor. Here’s a simple guide to how it works, and what makes an all-in-one processor so powerful. The Processor ...
  June 12, 2013 - PC World
• Synopsys Announces Design Kit Optimized for All SoC Processor Cores
  MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif., June 12, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Highlights: One design kit for optimizing all processor cores on an SoC that includes an ultra-high density memory compiler and more than 125 new standard ...
  June 12, 2013 - PR Newswire via Yahoo! Finance
• Latest AMD processor runs at 5GHz
  The AMD FX-9590 is an eight core CPU. Another new processor, the FX-9370, runsA at 4.7 GHz. Both processors will be available in July and pricing will be announced then, accordingA to the company.A
  June 11, 2013 - Computerworld

Quotes

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• Steve Jobs in Register
  Our goal is to provide our customers with the best personal computers in the world, and looking ahead Intel has the strongest processor roadmap by far,Jobs said. "It's been ten years since our transition to the PowerPC, and we think...
• Dirk Meyer in PC Magazine
  The AMD Product Company successfully executed its product and technology roadmaps in the first half of the year, including introducing the six-core AMD Opteron processor months ahead of schedule,Meyer said in a statement. "While we...
• Marc Benioff in Washington Post
  We're accelerating Google against Microsoft because we show customers that they can use Google apps, like Google spreadsheet and Google word processor instead of buying Microsoft Office,Benioff told analysts. "Microsoft doesn't like that."