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- noun Plural form of
microprocessor .
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Advanced Micro Devices, which makes both graphics chips and x86 microprocessors, is another company besides Nvidia that is promoting the technology shift.
Chinese Supercomputer Likely to Prompt Unease in U.S. Don Clark 2010
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Gordon Moore, co-founder of Intel with Andy Grove, stated that the number of transistors in microprocessors will double every 18 months.
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Advances in microprocessors, sensors and control systems have somewhat rectified that problem, sending nearly every top-tier carmaker (notably GM with the process explained above, Honda with activated radical combustion and Mercedes-Benz with its DiesOtto program) as well as a consortium of U.S. universities and government labs (recently contracted by the Department of Energy) into overdrive as they scramble to perfect an engine that employs HCCI.
GM Rethinks Engine With Homogeneous Charge-Compression Ignition « Isegoria 2008
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After all, to stay competitive in microprocessors, a company needs to constantly develop new ways to make chips with more transistors in less space for lower costs.
Who Benefits From A.M.D.’s Financial Engineering? - Bits Blog - NYTimes.com 2008
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After all, to stay competitive in microprocessors, a company needs to constantly develop new ways to make chips with more transistors in less space for lower costs.
Who Benefits From A.M.D.’s Financial Engineering? - Bits Blog - NYTimes.com 2008
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Advances in microprocessors, sensors and control systems have somewhat rectified that problem, sending nearly every top-tier carmaker (notably GM with the process explained above, Honda with activated radical combustion and Mercedes-Benz with its DiesOtto program) as well as a consortium of U.S. universities and government labs (recently contracted by the Department of Energy) into overdrive as they scramble to perfect an engine that employs HCCI.
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No. What's really changed is that in the 1980s, Moore's law was an aspiration, that there would be exponential improvements in these doohickeys called microprocessors and memory chips.
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He started studying Physics, then decided to follow a side interest in microprocessors.
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AMD, locked in a battle with Intel Corp. over chips known as microprocessors, said it expects first-quarter revenue of $1.5 billion, about 15% lower than the company reported in the fourth period.
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Wochna's company, Vestige Ltd., specializes in mining data created by these so-called microprocessors for telling tidbits of information on behalf of law firms, health-care institutions, government agencies, and others.
The Medical Quack 2009
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