How to Use CPU in a Sentence

CPU

abbreviation or noun

• The CPU lives in a sturdy base, from which a single post rises to support the screen.
  — Wired Staff, WIRED, 30 June 2017
• Their screens would be saved by displays of data analysis, showing which and how much data from elsewhere their CPUs were churning through during down-time.
  — Sarah Scoles, The Atlantic, 23 May 2017
• The new version makes two other tweaks, with a new set of footprints for video and audio jacks, and an extra capacitor to fix a timing issue when using the modern variant of the Z80 CPU chip.
  — IEEE Spectrum, 27 July 2023
• When run on systems without those graphics cards, the system’s CPU is used to create video recordings which may cause a noticeable performance impact on those systems.
  — Jay Peters, The Verge, 26 June 2024
• One of Intel’s key efficiency improvements was getting rid of separate memory sticks or chips, baking it into the CPU package instead.
  — Sean Hollister, The Verge, 3 Sep. 2024

Last Updated: 24 Jan 2025