How to Use central processing unit in a Sentence

central processing unit

noun
  • CPUs, or central processing units, are a hot item right now.
    — Jeff Marks, CNBC, 20 Apr. 2026
  • All computers have a brain, which is called the central processing unit.
    — Allen Foster, chicagotribune.com, 25 Feb. 2021
  • Your phone's central processing unit is also at risk of damage if it's overworked.
    — Brenna Gauchat, The Arizona Republic, 24 June 2024
  • Intel was once dominant in its core business for central processing units.
    — Sheryl Estrada, Fortune, 3 Dec. 2024
  • Intel has ruled the market for central processing units since the 1980s.
    — Jacky Wong, WSJ, 27 June 2023
  • Intel has ruled the market for central processing units since the 1980s.
    — Dan Gallagher, WSJ, 2 Aug. 2023
  • Likely, the defendant will have a central nervous system rather than a central processing unit.
    — Bill Hochberg, Forbes, 29 June 2022
  • Under normal conditions, these signals go straight to the robot’s central processing unit.
    — New Atlas, 8 Feb. 2026
  • The new server will be powered by Nvidia's new Vera central processing units, which are now in full production.
    — Katie Tarasov,chris Eudaily, CNBC, 1 June 2026
  • More went for a huge testing environment that used 5,000 central processing unit cores.
    — Joseph Menn, Washington Post, 27 July 2024
  • The human brain is a sort of central processing unit operating on multiple memory disks, some stored in the head, some in the culture.
    — Richard Granger, Discover Magazine, 31 Oct. 2022
  • The result was a virtual parallel processor that could run off a single central processing unit.
    — Stephen Witt, WIRED, 24 June 2019
  • Data transfer wires are attached to these three systems and connected to a central processing unit within the vehicle.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 4 May 2022
  • Intel had its best month ever in April, as agentic AI spins up a major renaissance for the central processing unit.
    — Katie Tarasov,jonathan Vanian, CNBC, 20 May 2026
  • For enterprises, the virtual gold rush can put corporate networks at risk and inflate cloud central processing unit usage, adding cost.
    — Bloomberg.com, 23 Mar. 2018
  • Graphics processing units have been key to the rise of large language models and use more electricity than central processing units used in other forms of computing.
    — Naureen S. Malik, Fortune, 25 Feb. 2024
  • For now, Intel remains the only major customer of its foundry business, making central processing units and other chips for its own devices.
    — Katie Tarasov, CNBC, 8 May 2026
  • These new bugs are actually in the computer’s hardware — specifically, in the central processing unit.
    — J. D. Biersdorfer, New York Times, 15 Jan. 2018
  • General-purpose CPUs, or central processing units, also are in greater demand.
    — Ian King, Fortune, 20 May 2026
  • Arm is calling the new data center central processing unit the AGI CPU.
    — Katie Tarasov, CNBC, 24 Mar. 2026
  • The security flaws are located in each computer's brain, known as the central processing unit or CPU.
    — Alyssa Newcomb, NBC News, 4 Jan. 2018
  • The company is also aiming to supply half of the central processing units used by the world’s largest cloud computing companies, also known as hyperscalers, by year-end.
    — Lee Ying Shan, CNBC, 10 Feb. 2026
  • They are powered by CPUs (central processing units) made by AMD and Intel .
    — Jim Cramer, CNBC, 28 June 2026
  • Games were starting to become more popular, but they were powered by CPUs, central processing units, and then graphics were kind of like an also-ran.
    — Lauren Goode, WIRED, 29 Feb. 2024
  • Intel’s rally has coincided with a resurgence of demand for its central processing unit, or CPU.
    — Kai Nicol-Schwarz, CNBC, 18 May 2026
  • Sensor data must be transmitted to a central processing unit, analyzed, and then converted into motor commands.
    — Neetika Walter, Interesting Engineering, 30 Dec. 2025
  • The central processing unit is the primary processing chip in any computer, including a gaming computer.
    — Kyle Schurman, chicagotribune.com, 8 Aug. 2020
  • The legacy part of AMD’s data center business — sales of traditional central processing units in servers — had a good quarter, too.
    — Jeff Marks, CNBC, 30 Oct. 2024
  • That's for CPUs (central processing units), not GPUs (graphics processing units), at least for now.
    — Jim Cramer, CNBC, 18 Jan. 2026
  • Their servers pack standard DRAM for the central processing units that perform tasks such as scheduling work and moving data around the system.
    — Eric Sullivan, Scientific American, 5 Feb. 2026

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