Any computer-based device that accepts different applications. All mainframes, servers, laptop and desktop computers, as well as smartphones and tablets are general-purpose devices.

Efficient Computer’s Electron E1 general-purpose processor claims up to 100× higher energy efficiency than general-purpose ...

“The rise of general-purpose computer chips has been remarkable. So, too, could be their fall,” they argue. As they point out, general-purpose computing was not always the norm. In the early days of ...

If you’d like to build a general-purpose computer, you’ll have to go with a superscalar processor – an x86, PowerPC, or any one of the other really beefy CPU architectures out there.

The spot isn’t just a good ad for iPads, though I think it is pretty good. It’s also a case study in what makes tablets in general such good ‘general purpose’ computing devices.

Solu, a handheld general purpose computer, has been developed by a Finnish company. The smartphone-sized device is actually a powerful computer on its own, and it utilizes cloud-based data storage ...

"New Computer Processor Has The Potential Of Reaching Trillions Of Calculations Per Second." ScienceDaily. ScienceDaily, 26 April 2007. <www.sciencedaily.com / releases / 2007 / 04 / 070424121804 ...