There’s a CPU. There’s a GPU. In just the past year or so, every tech company has been talking about “NPUs.” If you didn’t know the first two, you’re probably flummoxed about the third and why every ...

Central Processing Unit (CPU) is the heart and brain of every computer. Every single operation that you do with your computer is processed in CPU. The performance of your computer is based on its ...

Last year, a new class of networking chip called the infrastructure processing unit (IPU) joined Intel’s portfolio of server chips. Now the company is placing a long-term bet on the IPU as it looks to ...

Also called an "intelligent processing unit" (IPU) and "neural engine," a neural processing unit (NPU) is a set of circuits or a separate chip that accelerates the training and execution (inference) ...

Back in the early days of desktop computing, prior to the rise of the color monitor, the microprocessor—the general-purpose number-crunching hardware that acts as the “brains” of a computer—was ...

Tech's biggest players have fully embraced the AI revolution. Apple, Qualcomm and Huawei have made mobile chipsets that are designed to better tackle machine-learning tasks, each with a slightly ...

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At Google I/O, the company shared their next generation AI processing chip, the Tensor Processing Unit (TPU) v4. Machine learning has become critically important in recent years, powering critical ...