• A physics processing unit (PPU) is a dedicated microprocessor designed to handle the calculations of physics, especially in the physics engine of video...
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  • Deep learning processors, such as neural processing units are designed for efficient deep learning computation. Physics processing units (PPUs) are built...
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  • exclusively as a PPU. Hardware acceleration for physics processing is now usually provided by graphics processing units that support more general computation,...
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  • A vision processing unit (VPU) is (as of 2023) an emerging class of microprocessor; it is a specific type of AI accelerator, designed to accelerate machine...
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  • General-purpose computing on graphics processing units (GPGPU, or less often GPGP) is the use of a graphics processing unit (GPU), which typically handles computation...
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    A graphics processing unit (GPU) is a specialized electronic circuit designed for digital image processing and to accelerate computer graphics, being...
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  • design Graphics processing unit (GPU), a processor designed for doing dedicated graphics-rendering computations Physics processing unit (PPU), a dedicated...
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    NovodeX, the company who created PhysX – a Physics Processing Unit chip capable of performing game physics calculations much faster than general purpose...
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    computing circuits, including the central processing unit (CPU) of computers, FPUs, and graphics processing units (GPUs). The inputs to an ALU are the data...
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    Jensen Huang, Chris Malachowsky, and Curtis Priem, it develops graphics processing units (GPUs), system on a chips (SoCs), and application programming interfaces...
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  • This list contains general information about graphics processing units (GPUs) and video cards from Nvidia, based on official specifications. In addition...
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  • complementary methods of performing input/output (I/O) between the central processing unit (CPU) and peripheral devices in a computer (often mediating access...
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  • the memory address register. It acts as a buffer, allowing the processor and memory units to act independently without being affected by minor differences...
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    A multi-core processor (MCP) is a microprocessor on a single integrated circuit (IC) with two or more separate central processing units (CPUs), called...
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  • address-translation cache. It is a part of the chip's memory-management unit (MMU). A TLB may reside between the CPU and the CPU cache, between CPU cache...
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  • and other kinds of processors, adders are used in the arithmetic logic units (ALUs). They are also used in other parts of the processor, where they are used...
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  • Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, US Physics processing unit, a microprocessor typically used for video games Picture Processing Unit, the component which generates...
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    Hardware acceleration (category Central processing unit)
    efficiently when compared to software running on a general-purpose central processing unit (CPU). Any transformation of data that can be calculated in software...
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  • CPU cache (redirect from Processor cache)
    A CPU cache is a hardware cache used by the central processing unit (CPU) of a computer to reduce the average cost (time or energy) to access data from...
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  • contrast to the normal processor initialization [which involved the boot-strap-processor (BSP) sending a Start-up Inter-Processor Interrupt (SIPI) to each...
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  • never was an SI unit, the SI standards body acknowledged it in the 8th SI Brochure (superseded in 2019) due to its use in particle physics. During Manhattan...
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  • architecture and developed their own processors. PhysX P1 - A multi-core physics processing unit that contains MIPS cores "Completion of sale of MIPS - Imagination"...
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    PhysX (category Computer physics engines)
    NovodeX to PhysX, and the accelerator cards were dubbed PPUs (Physics Processing Units). In its implementation, the first video game to use PhysX technology...
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  • Hazard (computer architecture) (category Instruction processing)
    In the domain of central processing unit (CPU) design, hazards are problems with the instruction pipeline in CPU microarchitectures when the next instruction...
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  • fixed overhead attached to each sequence of multiplications. The carry-save unit consists of n full adders, each of which computes a single sum and carry...
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  • trusted execution environment that are built into some Intel central processing units (CPUs). They allow user-level and operating system code to define protected...
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  • The atomic units are a system of natural units of measurement that is especially convenient for calculations in atomic physics and related scientific...
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  • the theory of this specific physics processing unit is that a cache hierarchy is of less use than software managed physics and collision calculations....
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  • In computing, a vector processor is a central processing unit (CPU) that implements an instruction set where its instructions are designed to operate efficiently...
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    In particle physics and physical cosmology, Planck units are a system of units of measurement defined exclusively in terms of four universal physical constants:...
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