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Coze

Coze, known in China as Kouzi (扣子), is ByteDance's no-code platform for building chatbots and AI agents, launched internationally in late 2023 and in China in 2024.

Cozmo

Cozmo is a small consumer toy robot developed by Anki in San Francisco and released in October 2016, which drives, lifts objects, and plays mini-games with three Power Cubes.

CP System

The CP System (CPシステム), also known as CPS-1 or Capcom Play System 1, is an arcade system board Capcom introduced in 1988, running Street Fighter II and Final Fight.

CP System II

The CP System II, commonly abbreviated CPS-2, is an arcade system board released by Capcom in 1993, debuting with Super Street Fighter II: The New Challengers.

CP System III

CP System III, commonly abbreviated CPS3, is an arcade system board released by Capcom in 1996 that stored games on CD-ROM and ran six fighting games.

CP/M

CP/M, or Control Program for Microcomputers, is an operating system Gary Kildall wrote in 1974 for Intel 8080 computers with floppy disks, distributed by his company Digital Research.

CP0 (reactor)

CP0 is the first standardized series of six 900 MWe pressurized water reactors built in France under the Messmer plan, derived from a Westinghouse design.

CP1 (reactor)

CP1, also called Chicago Pile-1, was the world's first artificial nuclear reactor, achieving the first controlled self-sustaining chain reaction on December 2, 1942, under Enrico Fermi at the University of Chicago.

CP1000

CP1000, renamed from CNP1000 in 2010, was a CNNC pressurized water reactor design with a 177-fuel-assembly core, reworked as ACP1000 after the 2011 Fukushima accident.

CP2 (reactor)

CP2 is the last of France's three standard 900 MWe pressurized water reactor series, ten units built by Framatome under a 1976 EDF contract, differing from CP1 mainly in turbine hall layout.

CP2 LNG

CP2 LNG is a liquefied natural gas export terminal under construction in Cameron Parish, Louisiana, by Venture Global, with a nameplate capacity of 20 million tonnes per annum.

CP300

The CP300, written CNP-300, is a Chinese two-loop 300 MW pressurized water reactor designed by SNERDI, China's first indigenous reactor, built as Qinshan Unit 1 and exported to Pakistan.

CP600

The CP600, usually written CNP-600, is a Chinese two-loop pressurized water reactor of about 650 MWe developed by CNNC and deployed at Qinshan Phase II and Changjiang.

CPanel

CPanel is a graphical web hosting control panel for Linux servers, started in 1997 by Nick Koston and sold with WHM, which hosting providers use to administer individual cPanel accounts.

CPI Baicheng power station

CPI Baicheng power station (国家电投吉电股份白城发电厂) is a coal-fired power station in Baicheng, Jilin, China, owned by State Power Investment Corporation subsidiary Jilin Electric Power Co.

CPI Baiyinhua power station

CPI Baiyinhua power station (白音华坑口电厂) is a coal-fired power station in Xilingol League, Inner Mongolia, China, operating two 660 MW ultra-supercritical lignite units that entered commercial operation in June 2024.

CPI Xining power station

CPI Xining power station is an operating coal-fired power station in Ganhetan Town, Xining, Qinghai, China, owned by Qinghai Huanghe Hydropower Development under State Power Investment Corporation.

Cppcheck

Cppcheck is an open-source static analysis tool for C and C++ code, created by Daniel Marjamäki in 2007 to find real bugs with few false positives.

CPR-1000

The CPR-1000 is a Chinese Generation II pressurized water reactor of about 1,000 MWe, developed by CGN from French M310 technology and first started up in 2010.

CPS Energy

CPS Energy is the municipally owned electric and gas utility of San Antonio, Texas, serving roughly 950,000 electric customers since its 1942 purchase by the city.

CPU cache

A CPU cache is small, fast memory in a processor that holds copies of recently used data and instructions, arranged in L1, L2, and L3 levels.

CPU socket

A CPU socket, also called a processor socket, is the connector on a motherboard that holds a computer's processor and links it to the rest of the system.

CPU-Z

CPU-Z is a freeware system identification utility from CPUID that reports detailed processor, mainboard, memory, and graphics information, with a Windows version and an Android app with over 100 million installs.

CPUID

CPUID is an x86 processor instruction that returns identification and feature information about the CPU, introduced with the Intel Pentium in 1993 and used to discover processor capabilities at run time.

CPV Three Rivers Energy Center

CPV Three Rivers Energy Center is a 1,250-megawatt natural gas-fired combined-cycle power station in Grundy County, Illinois, about 60 miles southwest of Chicago, opened in 2023.

CPython

CPython is the reference implementation of the Python programming language, written in C and maintained by the Python Software Foundation; it compiles Python code to bytecode.

CQ (telegraphy)

CQ is a telegraphy and radio signal meaning a general call to all stations, originated on the British landline telegraph and still used in amateur radio.

CQD

CQD was a wireless telegraph distress signal introduced by the Marconi Company in 1904, the first adopted for ship radio and replaced by SOS in 1906.

CQRS

CQRS (Command Query Responsibility Segregation) is an architectural pattern, popularized by Greg Young, that separates commands that change data from queries that read data, using a different model for each.

CR Wujianfang power station

CR Wujianfang power station is a 1,320 MW coal-fired power station in West Ujimqin Banner, Xilingol League, Inner Mongolia, China, operating two 660 MW ultra-supercritical lignite units commissioned in 2019.