GPU
abbreviation or noun
variants
or less commonly gpu
plural GPUs also gpus
: a specialized CPU designed to efficiently perform calculations for generating computer graphics
A GPU can deliver hundreds of billions of operations per second—some GPUs more than a teraflop, or a trillion operations per second—while requiring only slightly more electrical power and cooling than a CPU.—
Andrea Di Blas et al.
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The company introduced a raft of innovations during its annual GTC event (which is short for GPU Technology Conference, a reference to Nvidia’s core product, the graphics processing unit).
—Dade Hayes, Deadline, 29 Oct. 2025
In a note to clients, analysts said that Google’s TPU, made by Broadcom, has become a serious competitor for Nvidia’s GPU.
—Natasha Abellard, CNBC, 27 Oct. 2025
And so that is still at the very beginning, the next frontier for us in AI, is what’s called the scale-up piece of the network as fiber replaces copper, fiber optics photons replace electrons, deeper and deeper in those GPU neural networks.
—Fortune Editors, Fortune, 22 Oct. 2025
Though the best performance is achieved with a high-end GPU, the audio deepfake was also tested on a laptop with Nvidia’s RTX A1000.
—IEEE Spectrum, 21 Oct. 2025
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Dade Hayes, Deadline, 29 Oct. 2025
In a note to clients, analysts said that Google’s TPU, made by Broadcom, has become a serious competitor for Nvidia’s GPU.
—Natasha Abellard, CNBC, 27 Oct. 2025
And so that is still at the very beginning, the next frontier for us in AI, is what’s called the scale-up piece of the network as fiber replaces copper, fiber optics photons replace electrons, deeper and deeper in those GPU neural networks.
—Fortune Editors, Fortune, 22 Oct. 2025
Though the best performance is achieved with a high-end GPU, the audio deepfake was also tested on a laptop with Nvidia’s RTX A1000.
—IEEE Spectrum, 21 Oct. 2025
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