CPU

Central processing unit, the general-purpose processor that runs operating systems and most software. It handles varied tasks well but few operations in parallel.

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Processors, accelerators and novel computing

• Advanced packaging
• AI accelerator
• Analog computing
• ASIC
• Chiplet
• CMOS
• Cryogenic computing
• Electronic design automation
• Energy per bit
• FinFET
• FPGA
• GPU
• Hybrid bonding
• Interposer
• Landauer limit
• Memory wall
• Microcontroller
• NPU
• Performance metrics for compute
• Process design kit
• Processing-in-memory
• Radiation hardening
• Reversible computing
• SerDes
• Superconducting logic
• System-on-chip
• Thermal design power
• TPU