How to Use central processing unit in a Sentence

central processing unit

noun

• Intel has ruled the market for central processing units since the 1980s.
  — Dan Gallagher, WSJ, 2 Aug. 2023
• Intel has ruled the market for central processing units since the 1980s.
  — Jacky Wong, WSJ, 27 June 2023
• All computers have a brain, which is called the central processing unit.
  — Allen Foster, chicagotribune.com, 25 Feb. 2021
• Your phone's central processing unit is also at risk of damage if it's overworked.
  — Brenna Gauchat, The Arizona Republic, 24 June 2024
• The human brain is a sort of central processing unit operating on multiple memory disks, some stored in the head, some in the culture.
  — Richard Granger, Discover Magazine, 31 Oct. 2022
• Games were starting to become more popular, but they were powered by CPUs, central processing units, and then graphics were kind of like an also-ran.
  — Lauren Goode, WIRED, 29 Feb. 2024
• Also known as the central processing unit, the CPU is what makes the computer program run and is responsible for your laptop's logic.
  — Sascha Brodsky, Popular Mechanics, 7 Dec. 2022
• The infotainment central processing unit may overheat during the preparation or process of fast-charging, causing the CPU to lag or restart.
  — USA TODAY, 19 May 2022
• The security flaws are located in each computer's brain, known as the central processing unit or CPU.
  — Alyssa Newcomb, NBC News, 4 Jan. 2018
• Likely, the defendant will have a central nervous system rather than a central processing unit.
  — Bill Hochberg, Forbes, 29 June 2022
• The chip at the heart of most computers, known as the central processing unit (CPU), is designed to be flexible enough to carry out any logical operation.
  — Will Knight, Wired, 27 Dec. 2021
• Data transfer wires are attached to these three systems and connected to a central processing unit within the vehicle.
  — IEEE Spectrum, 4 May 2022
• Graphics processing units have been key to the rise of large language models and use more electricity than central processing units used in other forms of computing.
  — Naureen S. Malik, Fortune, 25 Feb. 2024
• The result was a virtual parallel processor that could run off a single central processing unit.
  — Stephen Witt, WIRED, 24 June 2019
• In addition to the main central processing unit, there will be a graphics processing unit and a Neural Engine for handling machine learning, a popular and powerful type of AI, the people said.
  — Bernhard Warner, Fortune, 9 June 2020
• Libratus got around this bottleneck by only using searches in the final two (out of four) betting rounds—but that solution still required the use of 100 central processing units (CPUs) in a game with only two players.
  — Jeremy Hsu, Scientific American, 11 July 2019
• For enterprises, the virtual gold rush can put corporate networks at risk and inflate cloud central processing unit usage, adding cost.
  — Bloomberg.com, 23 Mar. 2018
• These new bugs are actually in the computer’s hardware — specifically, in the central processing unit.
  — J. D. Biersdorfer, New York Times, 15 Jan. 2018
• Sight, for example, takes up about a third of the brain, whereas the olfactory bulb — our central processing unit for smells — is comparatively tiny, taking up only 0.01 percent of brain matter in humans.
  — Emma Yasinski, Discover Magazine, 13 Nov. 2020
• Security researchers also said users should be aware of signs that their computer is being used as a mining machine--the device’s fans may start making noise, for example, or there could be a spike in central processing unit usage.
  — Adam Janofsky, WSJ, 21 Dec. 2017
• Your child’s age is an essential factor to consider when buying a laptop, because a younger child will usually require minimal features and the central processing unit (CPU) performance doesn't need to be super-fast.
  — Kevin Luna, chicagotribune.com, 9 Apr. 2021
• The central processing unit is the primary processing chip in any computer, including a gaming computer.
  — Kyle Schurman, chicagotribune.com, 8 Aug. 2020
• Direct-memory access A mechanism in a computer that bypasses the central processing unit to gain access to memory.
  — IEEE Spectrum, 2 July 2023
• Early microprocessors like Intel’s first central processing unit released in 1971 didn't create enough heat to require cooling.
  — Jim Morrison, Smithsonian Magazine, 16 Sep. 2020
• The concept of modular systems essentially allows enterprises and data centers to use swappable boards that work across any central processing unit (CPU) vendor.
  — Sanjoy Maity, Forbes, 17 Mar. 2023
• Dedicated graphics cards provide the computer with a separate memory bank for running graphics and video, while integrated cards use the machine’s existing processor, sharing the load with the central processing unit, or CPU.
  — Kevin Cortez, Popular Mechanics, 24 Feb. 2023
• GPUs were designed to do matrix multiplication, a sophisticated form of linear algebra that is orders of magnitude faster than central processing units.
  — Aydin Kilic, Forbes, 28 Nov. 2023
• Analogous to the central processing unit of a computer, working memory is a cognitive system responsible for carrying out the mental operations involved in complex tasks such as problem solving and language comprehension.
  — David Z. Hambrick, Scientific American, 22 Sep. 2015
• Ingenuity uses cell phone processor technology including a quad-core central processing unit (CPU) employing the Linux operating system.
  — Curtis Roelle, baltimoresun.com/maryland/carroll, 1 May 2021

Last Updated: 13 Nov 2024