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by cyanydeez 160 days ago
Neural Processing Unit.

A retarded GPU that does matrix multiplication.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neural_processing_unit

In theory, its your math coprocessor for your 386.

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> In theory, its your math coprocessor for your 386.

A math coprocessor, AFAIK, can do much more than matrix multiplications. From my POV, having a separate chip doing a single math operation is (so 1970) lame.