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NPU

NPU is the initialism of neural processing unit.

NPU is the initialism of network processing unit.

NPU is the initialism of numeric processing unit/numerical processing unit.

Meaning of neural processing unit

Noun

neural processing unit (plural neural processing units)

  1. (machine learning) A specialized hardware circuit designed to accelerate machine learning applications.
    • In addition, the large weight size inevitably causes latency, power, and energy overhead when transferring the weight data between the storage/memory and the processing units, such as central processing units (CPUs), graphic processing units (GPUs), neural processing units (NPUs), or accelerators...2023, Arslan Munir, Joonho Kong, Mahmood Azhar Qureshi, Accelerators for Convolutional Neural Networks, John Wiley & Sons, →ISBN, page 43
    Synonyms:
    NPU

Forms of NPU

pluralNPUs

Questions about NPU

What is NPU the initialism of?
NPU is the initialism of neural processing unit.

Words near NPU in the dictionary

  1. NPSC
  2. NPSCs
  3. NPSH
  4. NPT
  5. NPTA
  6. NPU
  7. NPUs
  8. NPV
  9. NPVs
  10. NQ
  11. NQE

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Adapted from Wiktionary: NPU (page history and authors); neural processing unit (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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