GPU

Initialism of State Political Directorate (“the Russian secret police until 1934”).

Proper noun

  1. Initialism of State Political Directorate (“the Russian secret police until 1934”).

Origin

From Russian Государственное Политическое Управление (Gosudarstvennoje Političeskoje Upravlenije).

Noun

  1. Initialism of graphics processing unit (an electronic circuit dedicated to generating graphics and displaying images).
    • “People who are investing in Nvidia infrastructure are getting returns on it right away,” Huang said last week, noting that the company’s new graphics processing units, the GPU chips that power AI, process data so...

    Coordinate Terms: CPU dGPU iGPU TPU

  2. Initialism of ground power unit (a ground mobile unit that supplies electrical power to an aircraft while on the ground, without needing to power up the engines or APU).

Forms

GPUs