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

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

A multi-core processor (MCP) is a microprocessor on a single integrated circuit (IC) with two or more separate central processing units (CPUs), called...

chips, such as cellular modems. Fundamentally, SoCs integrate one or more processor cores with critical peripherals. This comprehensive integration is conceptually...

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...

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...

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

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...

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

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

The Cell Broadband Engine (Cell/B.E.) is a 64-bit multi-core processor and microarchitecture developed by Sony, Toshiba, and IBM—an alliance known as...

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...

a text interface is often called a command-line interpreter, command processor or shell. Examples of command-line interpreters include Nushell, DEC's...

original Pentium was Intel's fifth generation processor, succeeding the i486; Pentium was Intel's flagship processor line for over a decade until the introduction...

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

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

NET 4.2, CE 5.0 and Embedded CE 6.0) it is referred to as the Command Processor Shell. Implementation differs between operating systems, but with significant...

main memory. A cache is a smaller, faster memory, located closer to a processor core, which stores copies of the data from frequently used main memory...

computer architecture, 32-bit computing refers to computer systems with a processor, memory, and other major system components that operate on data in a maximum...

term also refers to the ability of a system to support more than one processor or the ability to allocate tasks between them. There are many variations...