neural processing unit

English

Noun

neural processing unit (plural neural processing units)

1. (computer hardware, machine learning) A specialized hardware circuit designed to accelerate machine learning applications.

   Synonym: NPU

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

     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.

Further reading

• AI accelerator on Wikipedia.Wikipedia