GPU

¹ American  

abbreviation

1. General Postal Union. See Universal Postal Union.

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GPU ² American  

[gey-pey-oo, jee-pee-yoo] / ˈgeɪˌpeɪˈu, ˈdʒiˌpiˈyu /

Or G.P.U.

abbreviation

1. (in the Soviet Union) the secret-police organization (1922–23) functioning under the NKVD.

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GPU ³ American  

abbreviation

Computers.

1. graphics processing unit: a secondary processor usually dedicated to performing the calculations necessary for producing computer graphics, lessening the burden on the main processor.

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GPU British  

abbreviation

1. State Political Administration; the Soviet police and secret police from 1922 to 1923

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Etymology

Origin of GPU¹

From Russian G(osudárstvennoe) p(olitícheskoe) u(pravlénie) “state political directorate”

Origin of GPU¹

First recorded in 1970–75

Example Sentences

Microsoft Chief Financial Officer Amy Hood said Wednesday that if the company had allocated all of its latest GPU chips to Azure, the growth rate would have been above 40% in the latest quarter.

From The Wall Street Journal

“We believe the company could accelerate Azure in a bigger way but is balancing its commercial obligations with its own internal GPU needs,” he wrote, calling this “an underappreciated nuance” that makes him more confident about “the durability of Azure growth” for this calendar year.

From MarketWatch

“We view DeepSeek’s architecture as a new, promising engineering solution that could enable continued model scaling without a proportional increase in GPU capacity,” wrote UBS analyst Timothy Arcuri.

From Barron's

“If you try to rent an Nvidia GPU these days, it is so incredibly hard. The spot price of GPU rentals is going up.”

From Barron's

The 1 million GPU cluster exists in the present.

From MarketWatch