Hardware, infrastructure & tooling

GPU (Graphics Processing Unit)

Definition

A chip designed for many calculations at once, making AI training and inference faster.

AI Word Bank · Illustrated definition

Visual example

GPU (Graphics Processing Unit): a bank of kitchen burners represents many calculations running at the same time.

Burner bank = GPU

A kitchen example of gpu (graphics processing unit): a powerful bank of burners.

The kitchen connection

Think of a powerful bank of burners.

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01 · Who or what
Burner bank = GPU
02 · What happens
Runs many calculations together
03 · The result
Makes AI work faster

Why it matters

It supplies the parallel calculations that make modern AI workloads practical.