XPU

X8P3U1

noun

Any unit of computing hardware designed to accelerate a particular workload, often used in artificial intelligence applications.

UncommonScrabble 12
Ask AI about this wordChatGPTClaudePerplexityGoogle AIGrok

Meanings

nounXPU (plural XPUs)

plural XPUs

  1. computingAny 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

Origin

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.

Full word history & related roots →
Cite this entry
APA

XPU. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/XPU

MLA

“XPU.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/XPU. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “XPU,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/XPU.

Source: XPU on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.