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bartvk
on April 8, 2021
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lscpu + neofetch = cpufetch
If someone would say "processor", I'd expect them to mean the CPU, meaning the Central Processor Unit. The rest, I'd call them ICs.
loeg
on April 8, 2021
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Your typical harddrive has a full ARM core in it. Sure, it's an IC, but it's also reasonable to call it a processor (co-processor?).
taneliv
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Or three cores:
http://spritesmods.com/?art=hddhack&page=3
(2013, I think). The author only considers one of them "microcontroller-ish", the other two are "quite powerful arm9-like".
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