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XPU

XPU noun: any unit of computing hardware designed to accelerate a particular workload, often used in artificial intelligence applications.

Noun

XPU (plural XPUs)

  1. Any unit of computing hardware designed to accelerate a particular workload, often used in artificial intelligence applications.
    • By designing a custom chip around a specific workload for each client, XPUs can have greater performance than Nvidia's graphics processing units (GPUs).2025 October 10, “Is Broadcom the Next Nvidia?”, in The Globe and Mail, Toronto, ON: The Woodbridge Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 04 Apr 2026

Forms of XPU

pluralXPUs

Origin of XPU

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.

Questions about XPU

What does XPU mean?
XPU means any unit of computing hardware designed to accelerate a particular workload, often used in artificial intelligence applications.
What part of speech is XPU?
XPU is a noun.
What is the plural of XPU?
The plural of XPU is XPUs.

Words near XPU in the dictionary

  1. xpost
  2. xposted
  3. xposting
  4. xposts
  5. XPS
  6. XPU
  7. XPUs
  8. XQ
  9. XQs
  10. XQuery
  11. Xquic

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