Hyper-Q -- This enables multiple CPU cores to simultaneously use the CUDA architecture cores on a single Kepler GPU. This dramatically increases GPU utilization, slashing CPU idle times and advancing programmability.

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The basic architecture of Titan is a CPU-GPU hybrid.

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Intel is going to launch its next generation CPU (central processing unit) architecture Sandy Bridge in January 2011.

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In some cases the technologies sit side by side in devices - Apple's iPhone 5, for example, features a PowerVR GPU based on Imagination's architecture, and Apple's A6 CPU which is based on ARM's work.

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Still, you only get 320GB of storage, and the CPU belongs to Intel's older Arrandale architecture.

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The Xbox One's architecture -- equipped with a new x86 CPU -- prevents it from being able to run games designed for the 360's eight year old Xenon processor.

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