computing

[kuhm-pyoo-ting]

noun

1. the use of a computer to process data or perform calculations.

2. the act of calculating or reckoning.

computing

/ kəmˈpjuːtɪŋ /

noun

1. the activity of using computers and writing programs for them

2. the study of computers and their implications

adjective

1. of or relating to computers

   computing skills

Word History and Origins

Origin of computing¹

First recorded in 1640–50; compute + -ing ¹

Example Sentences

That marked an eighth consecutive month of growth as the global artificial-intelligence boom continues to feed appetite for South Korea’s high-performance computing chips.

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The company has benefited from a spike in demand for hard disk drives, or HDDs, driven by cloud computing and artificial intelligence.

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With the Nvidia deal, the South Korean government plans to build computing infrastructure that it will control, a term known as "sovereign AI".

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All of the big cloud-computing players say demand for AI computing power far outstrips supply, a situation that isn’t likely to come into balance for a few quarters, if not longer.

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The company has been developing proprietary AI models that power more than 400 million of its devices, built on Nvidia’s accelerated computing and Megatron framework, it said.

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