Sentences with phrase «central processing unit»

The human brain is a sort of central processing unit operating on multiple memory disks, some stored in the head, some in the culture.

Qualcomm wants users to stop thinking of its Snapdragon processors as central processing units (CPU) and start thinking of them as enablers, platforms.

Until now, robots have always been fitted with central processing units (CPUs), just like most PCs.

One way that researchers have begun to make high - speed computing more powerful and also more affordable is to build systems that split up workloads among fast, highly parallel graphics processing units (GPUs) and general - purpose central processing units (CPUs).

The processing power is supposedly provided by an Intel Atom central processing unit and the JooJoo is already built with a side slot meant for future integration of 3G connectivity.

The increased computational power that is making all this possible derives not only from Moore's law but also from the realization in the late 2000s that graphics processing units (GPUs) made by Nvidia — the powerful chips that were first designed to give gamers rich, 3D visual experiences — were 20 to 50 times more efficient than traditional central processing units (CPUs) for deep - learning computations.

One such computation took 8,000 central processing unit hours (equal to running a home computer for an entire year) and generated 120 terabytes of data.

The earliest FPGAs appeared 30 years ago, and today their logic circuits can replicate a wide range of reconfigurable devices including entire central processing units and other microprocessors.

Another — dynamic frequency scaling — allows computer central processing unit usage to be throttled back on the fly when data traffic on a network is light.

Charlie is not a singer; he manages a boxing robot in some near - future period when the dominant spectator sport blends ultimate fighting and monster trucks — large robots attempt to rattle each other's central processing units while the crowds cry for spilled oil.

The best of these PCs featured central processing unit (CPU) speeds of about 300 MHz and higher.»

The V6 CVT features a «Sport» mode controller with a high - speed central processing unit and Adaptive Shift Controller with adaptive logic for faster shifting in both normal and manual modes.

With powerful central processing units, outstanding graphic displays and refined touchscreen sensitivity, tablets are ideally suited to a wide range of uses, and Canadians tend to put them through their paces.

The configuration itself is centered around an Intel Atom N450 central processing unit, which is part of Intel's pine Trail platform.

Little is known about that technology as yet, but at the E3 expo in Los Angeles in June, Microsoft claimed its new iteration will boast an eight - core central processing unit, six teraflops of graphical power and support 4K resolution gaming.

Featuring a six teraflop graphics processor running at 1172 Mhz, 12 GB of GDDR5 memory and a 2.3 Ghz custom central processing unit, it is significantly more powerful than the Xbox One S and crucially, the PlayStation 4 Pro, with its 4.2 teraflop graphics processing unit and 911 Mhz CPU.

Intel recently announced a problem with its x86 - 64x central processing unit.

Security researchers released official documentation — complete with nicknames and logos — of two major flaws found in nearly all modern central processing units, or CPUs.

XScale is a microarchitecture for central processing units initially designed by Intel implementing the ARM architecture (version 5) instruction set.

The integrated central processing unit / graphics processing unit for the Xbox 360 console is purchased from IBM, and the supporting embedded dynamic random access memory chips are purchased from Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company.

Collaborated on assessment and election of new high - end fault tolerant file servers to consolidate lower end server platforms, increased memory, higher capacity storage devices and multiple central processing units.

Months of computations using thousands of central processing units were needed to simulate the climate and oceans up to 2300.

Researchers have found eight new flaws in computer central processing units that resemble the Meltdown and Spectre bugs revealed in January, a German computing magazine reported on Thursday.

The 31 - year - old information security researcher and post-doctoral fellow at Austria's Graz Technical University had just breached the inner sanctum of his computer's central processing unit (CPU) and stolen secrets from it.

This family of malware is designed to take control of a machine's central processing unit (or some of it).

Under it — for only about $ 100 more tacked on to the retail price of a typical laptop — we'll see regional managers at a national sales meeting, say, pump figures from their portables into a central processing unit, creating a companywide sales picture.

A CPU or central processing unit is a common measure of computer power.

This is because GPUs have large numbers of arithmetic logic units (ALUs) compared to central processing units (CPUs).

The mining tool hijacks a computer's central processing unit (CPU) and uses it to run mining software in the background.

Calling it a computer is no stretch: the Analytical Engine had a central processing unit and memory and would have been programmed with punched cards.

In turn, the operating system talks to the hardware, such as your central processing unit, which has the responsibility for actually storing the file.

The term «multitasking» was coined by the computing world to capture the idea that one central processing unit can simultaneously handle two or more tasks.

At the VLA, he currently uses 24 computer central processing units (CPUs) in parallel, both to record and search the data for brief radio bursts.

This versatility gives the company hope that it will someday be able to replace memory and central processing units (CPUs) with a single chip that performs both functions.

Nearly half of these volunteer PCs already have superfast graphics processing units (GPUs) in addition to central processing units (CPUs).

The densely packed electronics in the central processing unit shown here threw off so much heat that preventing meltdown became the central design challenge.

GPUs — graphics processing units — are more powerful and cost - efficient than CPUs — central processing units.

GPUs running in parallel (which means they split up the workload) in concert with Lincoln's 1,536 central processing units (CPUs).

In this case, Bamford says, the excess dopamine affected the flow of information from the cortex (the brain's central processing unit) to the striatum.

«These simulations required millions of central processing unit (CPU) hours on the supercomputer over the course of the project,» he said.

This sort of injury can be loosely compared with a computer glitch: «If something went wrong with the central processing unit, it might be slower — you couldn't save documents as easily — but it might chug along,» says Wayne Gordon, a professor of rehabilitation medicine at Mount Sinai School of Medicine.

In a conventional computer, the computational elements are mostly in the central processing unit, while the RAM sits off to one side.

IBM's million - neuron TrueNorth chip, revealed in prototype in August 2014, has a power efficiency for certain tasks that is hundreds of times superior to a conventional CPU (central processing unit), and more comparable for the first time to the human cortex.

In a computer, the two positions of a simple switch — voltage on and voltage off — become a language that can be understood by a computer's central processing unit.

«PipeCheck helps determine whether the central processing unit keeps the promises it makes about memory usage,» Martonosi said.

The two devices built by the researchers are key components for the communication link between a computer's central processing unit and its memory.

Such thirst for power is especially problematic for the communication link between a computer's central processing unit and its memory.