processor
noun
pro·ces·sor
ˈprä-ˌse-sər 
ˈprō-
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Matthew S Williams, Interesting Engineering, 5 Feb. 2026
The company’s smartphone customers, who buy their own memory and pair it with Qualcomm’s processors and modems, are closely watching their purchases and inventories and adjusting them based on the availability of memory.
—Kif Leswing, CNBC, 4 Feb. 2026
The unwanted fat from cheesemaking ends up at processors such as Grassland Dairy, a large butter maker based in Wisconsin.
—Sarah Zhang, The Atlantic, 4 Feb. 2026
Tesla chose a low-cost hardware suite (cameras and a custom processor) already present in their cars with the hope that enough software effort, particularly machine learning, would make the system work safely enough with that hardware.
—Brad Templeton, Forbes.com, 30 Jan. 2026
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“Processor.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/processor. Accessed 15 Feb. 2026.
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processor
noun
pro·ces·sor
ˈpräs-ˌes-ər
ˈprōs-
1
: a person or machine that processes
2
: a part of a computer that processes data
especially
: cpu
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