: an increase according to a fixed ratio

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Building a material still requires the gritty work of synthesis, testing, and scale-up. Srishti Gupta, Interesting Engineering, 23 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 By anchoring international scale-ups in these spaces, the city is converting vacancy into velocity. Sindhya Valloppillil, Forbes.com, 17 Sep. 2025 Such a development would position Arista to compete with Nvidia in the scale-up network market as opposed to the AI chip market, Koontz said. Sean Conlon, CNBC, 16 Sep. 2025 See All Example Sentences for scale-up

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1945, in the meaning defined above

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The first known use of scale-up was in 1945

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“Scale-up.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/scale-up. Accessed 27 Oct. 2025.

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