Also called an "intelligent processing unit" (IPU), a neural processing unit (NPU) is a GPU chip designed to accelerate the execution of neural networks, the architecture of AI models. The NPU ...

According to SiFive, its engineers enhanced the two designs with a new co-processor interface. The technology will make it ...

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High-performance computing startup LightSolver Ltd. today announced what it says is the world’s first pure “laser-based processing unit,” providing businesses with an alternative to expensive ...

Many of us wonder what the point of a graphics card or Graphics Processing System (GPU) in our computers is. Few people think it’s only for those who play games. But having a graphics card is not just ...

As Ebay wisely notes in its buying guide, "the CPU will limit how fast anything can occur in the system." That's an important fact to remember when choosing a processor for your computer. Although ...

A custom-built chip for machine learning from Google. Introduced in 2016 and found only in Google datacenters, the Tensor Processing Unit (TPU) is optimized for matrix multiplications, which are ...