simdprocessor
nounUK /sɪmˈdiː prəˈsɛsə/
US /sɪmˈdiː prəˈsɛsər/
A computer chip that does the same job on many pieces of data all at once.
The game console uses a SIMD processor to draw many pixels at the same time.
OTHER MEANINGS
2. A processor designed to apply one instruction to multiple data elements simultaneously.
Engineers optimized the code to take advantage of the SIMD processor's wide registers.
3. A hardware unit used in multimedia and scientific computing for vectorized operations.
Video encoding runs much faster on a SIMD processor than on a scalar one.
4. A type of parallel architecture where a single control unit drives many processing elements.
The supercomputer's SIMD processor handled the matrix math efficiently.