XPU
nounEtymology Initialism of X processing unit, with "X" acting as a placeholder for various kinds of hardware such as neural processing units, tensor processing units, or graphics processing units.
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Computing, Engineering, Mathematics, Natural sciences, Physical sciences, Sciences Any unit of computing hardware designed to accelerate a particular workload, often used in artificial intelligence applications.
- By designing a custom chip around a specific workload for each client, XPUs can have greater performance than Nvidia's graphics processing units (GPUs).2025 October 10, “Is Broadcom the Next Nvidia?”, in The Globe and Mail, Toronto, ON: The Woodbridge Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 04 Apr 2026: