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andrewdb • yesterday at 8:40 AM • 4 replies • view on HN

Why do we call them GPUs these days?

Most GPUs, sitting in racks in datacenters, aren't "processing graphics" anyhow.

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xeonmc • yesterday at 8:49 AM

General Processing Units

Gross-Parallelization Units

Generative Procedure Units

Gratuitously Profiteering Unscrupulously

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jgtrosh • yesterday at 9:25 AM

The dedicated term GPGPU [0] didn't catch on.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/General-purpose_computing_on_g...

anthk • yesterday at 1:00 PM

VPU. Vector/Video Processing Unit.

CompuHacker • yesterday at 9:51 AM

  CPU = Compute
  GPU =  Impute