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pro·ces·sor

(prō'ses-sŏr),
A device that converts one form of energy into another form of energy or one form of material into another form of material.
Farlex Partner Medical Dictionary © Farlex 2012

pro·ces·sor

(pros'es-sŏr)
A device that converts one form of energy into another form of energy or one form of material into another form of material.
Medical Dictionary for the Health Professions and Nursing © Farlex 2012
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Although the total system's consumption is higher when running the benchmark suite of the parallel prefix sum algorithmic function on graphics processors (0.306 kW for GTX 280 and 0.358 kW for GTX 480) than for running on the central processing unit (0.283 kW), the energy consumption, and thus the costs, are considerably lower for the GPU than for the CPU as the total execution time is significantly reduced for the GPUs (0.025 h for the GTX 280 and 0.013 h for the GTX 480) than for the CPU (0.196 h).
The production from the field's 10 wells was reduced until the sixth processing unit is completed to increase the capacity to 2.4bn scf/day.
And afteravailing a loan of Nu 1mnfrom the Rural Enterprise Development Corporation Limited (REDCL), they finally started the NazhoenFood Processing Unit - achips processing unit - atChangzamtogIt has been four monthsthat the unit has been setup and both Pelden andKelzang currently employ 11youth with a few more to berecruited on temporary basisduring the winter vacationfor students.Today, the foodprocessing unit suppliesmore than 10 varieties oflocally made chips to five different Dzongkhags with monthly income of over Nu100,000.
* A mobile processing unit can give many producers a clean, properly designed area for processing and reduce the chances of food-product contamination.
It brought a new and innovative AI experience and a key new feature: A neural processing unit (NPU), which enables cloud-based and on-device AI to run alongside each other, providing faster performance.
Last year, HUAWEI had unveiled the world's first AI computing platform-Kirin 970, integrated in the HUAWEI Mate 10 series, bringing a new and innovative AI experience and a key new feature: a Neural Processing Unit (NPU), which enables cloud-based artificial intelligence (AI) and on-device AI to run alongside each other, providing a faster performance.
The chip in question is the Myriad 2, which Movidius describes as a "visual processing unit" or VPU.
The central processing unit (CPU) calls a large number of kernel functions on the device that will use its internal task scheduler to establish the most suitable strategy of allocating the functions (kernels).
The rate of progress of the project has reached approximately 60% and work of the final processing unit underway in the industrial area in Gabes is at 75%, since 90% of the equipment of that unit have been installed, according to data presented by project managers.
Al Musanah, June 18 (ONA) Fish Processing Unit in the Wilayat of Al Musanah is one of the important projects that encourage coastal women to invest, start small and medium projects and provide a variety of fish products, which will increase her family's income.