That refers to the size of the processor, where a smaller number is better in terms of power consumption, fitting more transistors in less space for more efficient processing.
Sure, we have smaller PCs, but really, what's become smaller is the die size of the processor, the cell size of the RAM, the width of a sector on the hard drive.
The size of the processors must be as small as possible because, for a 256 × 256px image, more than 65 k processors plus interconnections must be included in a reduced area.
"Because of the small size of the processors and the significant reduction in the requirements for bus bandwidth achieved by large caches, such symmetric multiprocessors are extremely cost-effective, provided that a sufficient amount of memory bandwidth exists".
Put the apples in the food processor, depending on the size of the food processor about 2 or 3 slices at a time.
The chip, code-named Hammer, processes data in 64-bit portions, twice the size of the Pentium processors made by Advanced Micro's rival, Intel.
Although these processors are being used, many fields need small size processors, so this work proposes two novel methods of reducing the sizes of these processors: firstly, the architecture which is that various interdigital transducers (IDTs) stand in a line is used to reduce the sizes of these processors.
Improvements were not dependent on the window search size; results only depended on the size of the macro block processor and algorithm; lower improvement correlated with a higher size.
The other key number to look at is that of the front-side bus, referring to the size of the pathway between the processor and the PC's main memory.
Depending on the block size, the parameter space spanned by the number of block rows, size of the blocks and the processor count is shown to favor one or the other of the two algorithms.
In this architecture, when the electrode-pairs numbers of various IDTs are larger than 20, the bulk acoustic wave (BAW) is eliminated, so this architecture cannot only reduce the sizes of these processors, but also eliminate BAW; secondly, as long as the electrode-overlap envelopes of IDTs will weaken fast with time t, the sizes of these processors are also reduced.
