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 machine comes with 8 gigabytes of memory, or RAM, a 6 core CPU, or main processor, and 5 core GPU, or graphics component, with no upgrades available.
—Bloomberg, Mercury News, 4 Mar. 2026
Analysts at Rosenblatt Securities said management addressed multiple investor concerns during the quarter, including GPU capacity, competition from custom chips, power availability, memory supply and customer financing.
—Yun Li, CNBC, 26 Feb. 2026
Nexus One now supports job-aware observability, allowing operators to correlate network behavior directly with GPU workloads.
—Neetika Walter, Interesting Engineering, 11 Feb. 2026
As the size of AI models has grown, so has HBM’s importance to the GPU.
—IEEE Spectrum, 10 Feb. 2026
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Bloomberg, Mercury News, 4 Mar. 2026
Analysts at Rosenblatt Securities said management addressed multiple investor concerns during the quarter, including GPU capacity, competition from custom chips, power availability, memory supply and customer financing.
—Yun Li, CNBC, 26 Feb. 2026
Nexus One now supports job-aware observability, allowing operators to correlate network behavior directly with GPU workloads.
—Neetika Walter, Interesting Engineering, 11 Feb. 2026
As the size of AI models has grown, so has HBM’s importance to the GPU.
—IEEE Spectrum, 10 Feb. 2026
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