Hacker News Reader

Comment by andrewdb | Hacker News Reader

Why do we call them GPUs these days?

Most GPUs, sitting in racks in datacenters, aren't "processing graphics" anyhow.

General Processing Units

Gross-Parallelization Units

Generative Procedure Units

Gratuitously Profiteering Unscrupulously

Greed Processing Units

This is just brilliant!

Sometimes Gibberish Producing Units

Gibberish Pipeline Units

General Parallel Units

The dedicated term GPGPU [0] didn't catch on.

VPU. Vector/Video Processing Unit.

Greenhouse Production Units

  CPU = Compute
  GPU =  Impute