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I would hope at least chip designers/manufacturers will stop referring to chips designed and marketed specifically for AI/ML as "G"PUs, when they aren't really

I would hope at least chip designers/manufacturers will stop referring to chips designed and marketed specifically for AI/ML as "G"PUs, when they aren't really about graphics processing anymore.

dmitriid 7y ago
General Processing Units then? :)
- rangibaby 7y ago
  That's very clever, and reminds me of DVD (Digital Video Disc to Digital Versatile Disc)
- nightcracker 7y ago
  If a CPU is a Central Processing Unit then I guess we should call them DPUs: Distributed Processing Unit.
- pavlov 7y ago
  Maybe “Parallel Processing Unit”, PPU?
  - earenndil 7y ago
    PPU is used as 'Picture Processing unit', essentially the graphics card of older 2d consoles.
    - floatboth 7y ago
      Also was "POWER Processing Unit" in the IBM Cell that was in the PlayStation 3.
- p1mrx 7y ago
  Guided processing unit. The CPU tells it what to process.
amelius 7y ago
Yes, and hopefully that will stop the problems I get with video drivers when installing a GPU which I just use for raw computation. Also, my PC has 10 video outputs now, which I think is insane!
als0 7y ago
In the case of ARM they seem to have announced Neural Processing Units (NPUs), which looks more like a mass market TPU.