GPU

GPU (plural GPUs)

1. (computer hardware) Initialism of graphics processing unit (an electronic circuit dedicated to generating graphics and displaying images).

   Coordinate terms: CPU, dGPU, iGPU, TPU

   • 2024 September 4, David Goldman, “Parija”, in CNN Business‎^[1]:

     “People who are investing in Nvidia infrastructure are getting returns on it right away,” Huang said last week, noting that the company’s new graphics processing units, the GPU chips that power AI, process data so efficiently that they end up saving clients money quickly. […] “Nvidia has changed the tech and global landscape as its GPUs have become the new oil and gold in the IT landscape,” Ives said Tuesday in a note to investors.

2. (aviation) Initialism of ground power unit (a ground mobile unit that supplies electrical power to an aircraft while on the ground, without needing to power up the engines or APU).

From Russian Государственное Политическое Управление (Gosudarstvennoje Političeskoje Upravlenije).

GPU

1. (historical) Initialism of State Political Directorate (“the Russian secret police until 1934”).

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• pug, PuG, UPG, gup

Borrowed from English GPU.

GPU f (plural GPUs)

1. (computing) GPU
   • 2020 August 5, Angel Jiménez de Luis, “Estas son las nuevas iMac de Apple”, in CNN en Español‎^[2]:

     Es una experiencia que complementa la CPU y la GPU para realizar las tareas más rápido y que se apoya en el chip T2 integrado, que también controla la seguridad del equipo.

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