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  2. Graphics processing unit - Wikipedia

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    Components of a GPU. A graphics processing unit (GPU) is a specialized electronic circuit initially designed for digital image processing and to accelerate computer graphics, being present either as a discrete video card or embedded on motherboards, mobile phones, personal computers, workstations, and game consoles.

  3. Graphics card - Wikipedia

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    A modern consumer graphics card: A Radeon RX 6900 XT from AMD. A graphics card (also called a video card, display card, graphics accelerator, graphics adapter, VGA card/VGA, video adapter, display adapter, or colloquially GPU) is a computer expansion card that generates a feed of graphics output to a display device such as a monitor.

  4. GeForce 256 - Wikipedia

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    The GeForce 256 is the original release in Nvidia's "GeForce" product line.Announced on August 31, 1999 and released on October 11, 1999, the GeForce 256 improves on its predecessor by increasing the number of fixed pixel pipelines, offloading host geometry calculations to a hardware transform and lighting (T&L) engine, and adding hardware motion compensation for MPEG-2 video.

  5. AMD Chief Predicts Custom Chips Will Outperform GPUs ... - AOL

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    Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. (NASDAQ:AMD) chief Lisa Su shared insight into the prospects of graphics processing units (GPUs) in the near term, almost to the extent of taking a dig at rival Nvidia ...

  6. Why Nvidia, Broadcom, Microsoft, and Other Artificial ... - AOL

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    Heading into today's trading, Broadcom, Nvidia, and Microsoft were selling for 200 times, 56 times, and 37 times earnings, respectively. Alphabet was the outlier, selling for a discount at 27 ...

  7. History of computing hardware (1960s–present) - Wikipedia

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    In 1958, Jack Kilby at Texas Instruments invented the hybrid integrated circuit (hybrid IC), [1] which had external wire connections, making it difficult to mass-produce. [2] In 1959, Robert Noyce at Fairchild Semiconductor invented the monolithic integrated circuit (IC) chip. [3] [2] It was made of silicon, whereas Kilby's chip was made of ...

  8. The Greatest American Inventions of the Past 50+ Years - AOL

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    From the first Apple computer to the COVID-19 vaccine, here are the most revolutionary inventions that were born in the U.S.A. in the past half-century.

  9. GeForce - Wikipedia

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    The first products were the GeForce GTX 260 and the more expensive GeForce GTX 280. [15] The GeForce 310 was released on November 27, 2009, which is a rebrand of GeForce 210. [16] [17] The 300 series cards are rebranded DirectX 10.1 compatible GPUs from the 200 series, which were not available for individual purchase.