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central processing unit | processor, centrale verwerkingseenheid (The computational and control unit of a computer. The CPU is the device that interprets and executes instructions. Mainframes and early minicomputers contained circuit boards full of integrated circuits that implemented the CPU. Single-chip central processing units, called microprocessors, made possible personal computers and workstations) |
graphics processing unit A dedicated, heavily parallelized processor used to perform graphics or other floating point–intensive calculations | GPU (Graphics Processing Unit) |