"XPU" meaning in English

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Noun

Forms: XPUs [plural]
Etymology: Initialism of X processing unit, with "X" acting as a placeholder for various kinds of hardware such as neural processing units, tensor processing units, or graphics processing units. Etymology templates: {{initialism|en|X processing unit}} Initialism of X processing unit Head templates: {{en-noun}} XPU (plural XPUs)
  1. (computing) Any unit of computing hardware designed to accelerate a particular workload, often used in artificial intelligence applications. Wikipedia link: graphics processing units, neural processing units, tensor processing units

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