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Does it seems silly to anybody else to even call these GPUs? That's a GPU minus the G.

Very much absurd. A user above posted GPGPU, which I guess stands for General Purpose Graphics Processing Unit.

In the beginnings of computation these kinds of cards were called accelerators. Dedicated consumer sound cards were a thing, the venerable SoundBlaster. I really would like an AI-Blaster coming out.

There is actually ML hardware that is not based on GPU technology: it's called TPU (Tensor processing unit) but only Google uses it. I guess it is easier to repurpose existing technology even if a specialized approach is more efficient in theory.

Agreed. I guess it's because of the architectural heritage but at this point GPU is something of a misnomer.

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