neural processing unit

plural neural processing units

1. machine learningcomputer hardwareA specialized hardware circuit designed to accelerate machine learning applications.

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   In addition, the large weight size inevitably causes latency, power, and energy overhead when transferring the weight data between the storage/memory and the processing units, such as central processing units (CPUs), graphic processing units (GPUs), neural processing units (NPUs), or accelerators, which are not desirable for resource-constrained edge devices.

   2023, Arslan Munir, Joonho Kong, Mahmood Azhar Qureshi, Accelerators for Convolutional Neural Networks, John Wiley & Sons, →ISBN, page 43

   Synonyms: NPU