Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

xpu

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: xpu
IPA

12

Scrabble Score

3

Letters

1

Syllables

3

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

Any unit of computing hardware designed to accelerate a particular workload, often used in artificial intelligence applications.

Example Sentences

"By designing a custom chip around a specific workload for each client, XPUs can have greater performance than Nvidia's graphics processing units (GPUs)."

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.

Inflected Forms

XPUs (plural)

Questions

What does xpu mean?: Any unit of computing hardware designed to accelerate a particular workload, often used in artificial intelligence applications.
Where does xpu come from?: 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.

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