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compute

[kuhm-pyoot] / kəmˈpjut /


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High thread density and single-thread performance measure two different aspects of compute.

From MarketWatch Jul. 23, 2026

“AI is driving unprecedented demand for compute, and as we continue to execute, Intel is well-positioned to capture sustainable growth.”

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 23, 2026

“You can’t just wake up one morning and say, ‘Oh, I want a gigawatt of compute tomorrow,’” Su said.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 22, 2026

Its ambitions remain relatively small compared to the hundreds of billions of dollars and gigawatts of compute being built by American firms.

From Barron's Jul. 21, 2026

For years, he’s been trying to compute a mathematical problem in his head that does not compute.

From "I'll Give You the Sun" by Jandy Nelson

The harsh reality remains that anything that computes needs some form of system memory.

From The Wall Street Journal Jun. 26, 2026

With quantum computers, it will be possible to run massive computes to see how different molecules react with each other to find out what works and with what side-effects.

From BBC Apr. 13, 2026

Customs and Border Protection, which actually computes and collects the tariffs, says it will cease collecting the invalidated levies when the clock strikes 12:01 a.m.

From Los Angeles Times Feb. 24, 2026

“This new math can simulate them, because it computes the same way nature does.”

From MarketWatch Nov. 12, 2025

And during that week after his birthday, Mama Nee is working third shift, so that computes to just about every night.

From "Odd One Out" by Nic Stone

“I computed the statistics,” he says, “and decided it was fifty-fifty.”

From The Wall Street Journal Jan. 23, 2026

Somewhere in a Google lab, a chip called Willow just computed the structure of a molecule 13,000 times faster than the most powerful supercomputer on Earth.

From MarketWatch Dec. 23, 2025

These expressions were strikingly efficient, allowing pi to be computed much faster than existing techniques of the time.

From Science Daily Dec. 16, 2025

There are some factors that can’t be computed by tech and A.I.

From Slate Nov. 9, 2024

Jesse had computed how many paychecks they would get—two for him and four for Eric—if they waited a month before leaving.

From "Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho" by Jon Katz

With SK hynix selling vital memory chips to AI computing company Nvidia, Chey's stake is now worth roughly $5.5 billion, according to regulatory filings and public data.

From Barron's Jul. 24, 2026

While other tech giants spend on AI data centers, Big Blue aims to keep selling mainframes and pour profits into quantum computing.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 24, 2026

Sales from Intel’s client computing and physical artificial-intelligence group came in at $8.9 billion for the second quarter, about $900 million above the consensus view.

From MarketWatch Jul. 24, 2026

The San Francisco-based startup, a chief rival to OpenAI, said the model tops industry benchmarks for coding and knowledge work while consuming fewer computing resources than earlier versions.

From Barron's Jul. 24, 2026

In 1949, however, an unusual and tragic turn of events would bind Dorothy to the West Area computing office for the next decade.

From "Hidden Figures" by Margot Lee Shetterly




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