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by beAbU 308 days ago
GPU stands for "graphics processing unit" so I'm not sure how your suggestion solves it.

Maybe renaming the device to an MPU, where the M stands for "matrix/math/mips" would make it more semantically correct?

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I think that G was changed to "general", so now it's "general processing unit".
This doesn't seem to be true at all. It's a highly specialized chip for doing highly parallel operations. There's nothing general about it.

I looked around briefly and could find no evidence that it's been renamed. Do you have a source?

CPU is already the general (computing) processing unit so that wouldn't make sense