| English | Japanese |
| central processing unit | 中央処理装置 (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, ちゅうおう・しょり・そうち) |
| graphics processing unit | グラフィックス処理装置 (A processor on a graphics card that is used as a video encoding accelerator) |