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by Dalewyn 610 days ago
There are no nerves in a neural processing unit, so yes: It's 300% bullshit marketing.
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Neural is an adjective. Adjectives do not require their associated nouns to be present. See also: digital computers have mo fingers at all.
I always thought 'digital' referred to numbers, not fingers.
The derivative meaning has been use so widely that it has surpassed its original one in usage. But it doesn’t change the fact that it originally refers to the fingers.
Maybe the N secretly stands for NFT.. Like the tesla self driving hardware only smaller and made of silicon.