IPUs? These New Chips Are Minted For Marketing
IPUs? These New Chips Are Minted For Marketing
Business, Spoken · SpokenLayer
September 3, 20182m 0s
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IPU n. Short for intelligence processing unit, a new kind of computer chip optimized for AI. Way back in the early 2000s, when the first Xbox came out, researchers discovered they could hack videogame consoles for scientific uses. It seems the devices’ graphic processing units, or GPUs, designed to render flying gore and mayhem, also ran physics simulations faster than the CPUs in ordinary computers.
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