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A graphics processing unit (GPU) is a processor designed to execute many similar operations in parallel.
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Groq
Groq is a United States artificial intelligence infrastructure company that operates an AI inference cloud and offers on-premises inference systems.
Groq Hardware
Groq hardware is a family of artificial-intelligence accelerators and multi-chip systems built around a statically scheduled streaming architecture.
HBM3e
HBM3e (also written HBM3E and HBM3 Extended) is the extended-bandwidth variant of HBM3 high bandwidth memory, a stacked DRAM technology used as on-package memory for AI accelerators and high-performance…
HBM4
HBM4 (High Bandwidth Memory generation 4) is the fourth principal generation of high bandwidth memory (HBM)
High Bandwidth Memory (HBM)
High Bandwidth Memory (HBM) is a JEDEC-standardised, 3D-stacked DRAM technology that delivers very high memory bandwidth and good energy efficiency to a nearby logic die, typically a GPU or AI accelerator, by…
Huawei Ascend
Huawei Ascend is a family of AI accelerators designed by Huawei around a custom processor architecture called Da Vinci.
Huawei Ascend 910B
The Huawei Ascend 910B is a data-center AI accelerator designed by Huawei's HiSilicon unit that became China's most widely deployed domestic alternative to restricted NVIDIA data-center GPUs across roughly…
Huawei Ascend 910C
The Huawei Ascend 910C is a data-center artificial intelligence accelerator developed by Huawei and positioned as China's leading domestic alternative to high-end NVIDIA GPUs that are barred from sale to…
Huawei CloudMatrix 384
The Huawei CloudMatrix 384 (commonly shortened to CM384) is a rack-scale artificial intelligence computing system that Huawei markets as an "AI supernode." It wires together 384 Huawei Ascend 910C…
Hyperscaler
A hyperscaler is a company that builds and operates computing infrastructure at a scale far beyond a conventional enterprise IT estate: globally distributed fleets of data centers holding millions of servers…
InferenceX
InferenceX, launched in October 2025 under the name InferenceMAX, is an open-source benchmark that continuously measures large language model inference performance across AI accelerators and serving software.
InfiniBand
InfiniBand is a high throughput, low latency networking interconnect standard used to connect servers, storage, and accelerators inside high performance computing systems and large artificial intelligence…
Intel
Intel Corporation is an American multinational semiconductor company headquartered in Santa Clara, California, that designs CPUs, GPUs, and Gaudi AI accelerators and operates Intel Foundry
Intel Crescent Island
Intel Crescent Island is a data-center GPU from Intel built for artificial-intelligence inference workloads.
Intel Gaudi 3
Intel Gaudi 3 is a data-center AI accelerator from Intel, built by its Habana Labs unit, designed to train and run large language models as a lower-cost alternative to Nvidia's H100 GPU.
Jalapeño (OpenAI chip)
Jalapeño is a custom AI accelerator designed by OpenAI with silicon implementation and networking technology from Broadcom.
Lightmatter
Lightmatter is a U.S. silicon-photonics company that designs and manufactures optical computing hardware and photonic interconnects for artificial intelligence and high-performance computing.
MLPerf
MLPerf is the AI industry's standard suite of benchmarks for measuring how fast machine learning systems train and run models, developed and maintained by MLCommons
MTIA
MTIA (Meta Training and Inference Accelerator) is a family of custom silicon chips that Meta designs for use in its own data centers rather than for sale.
MatX
MatX is an American semiconductor startup that designs AI chips purpose-built for large language models (LLMs).
Meta MTIA
MTIA (Meta Training and Inference Accelerator) is a family of custom AI chips that Meta designs in-house to run its largest artificial intelligence workloads, beginning with the deep learning recommendation…
Meta MTIA 300 series
The Meta MTIA 300 series is a set of four custom AI accelerator chips that Meta unveiled on March 11, 2026, as the next phase of its in-house Meta Training and Inference Accelerator program.
Meta-Amazon Graviton deal
The Meta-Amazon Graviton deal is a multibillion-dollar, multiyear agreement announced on April 24, 2026
MetaX
MetaX (Chinese: 沐曦; pinyin: Mùxī), formally MetaX Integrated Circuits (Shanghai) Co., Ltd. and sometimes rendered Muxi, is a Chinese fabless semiconductor company based in Shanghai that designs general-purpose…
Micron Technology
Micron Technology, Inc. (NASDAQ: MU) is an American memory and storage chipmaker headquartered in Boise, Idaho.
Microscaling formats
Microscaling (MX) formats are a family of low-precision number formats for machine learning in which a small block of values, normally 32 of them, shares one common scale factor while each value is stored in a…
Microsoft Azure Maia 100
The Microsoft Azure Maia 100, often referred to as Maia 100, is a custom artificial intelligence accelerator designed by Microsoft for large-scale generative AI workloads running inside its Azure cloud.
Microsoft Maia 200
Microsoft Maia 200 is a custom artificial intelligence accelerator designed by Microsoft for inference workloads in the Azure cloud.
Microsoft microfluidic cooling
Microsoft's microfluidic cooling is an experimental chip-cooling technique, disclosed by Microsoft in September 2025, that etches tiny channels directly into the back of a silicon die and pushes liquid coolant…
Moore Threads
Moore Threads (Chinese: 摩尔线程; Moore Threads Technology Co., Ltd.) is a Beijing-based Chinese designer of graphics processing units founded in October 2020 by Zhang Jianzhong, a former vice president and…
NVFP4
NVFP4 (NVIDIA FP4) is a 4-bit floating-point number format introduced by Nvidia with the Blackwell GPU architecture.
NVHBM
NVHBM is an announced custom high-bandwidth memory architecture from NVIDIA for custom AI accelerators that participate in the company's NVLink Fusion platform. NVIDIA introduced it on August 26, 2026.
NVIDIA A100
The NVIDIA A100 Tensor Core GPU is a datacenter graphics processing unit that NVIDIA introduced on May 14, 2020 as the first product built on its Ampere architecture, and that became the dominant chip for…
NVIDIA A800
The NVIDIA A800 is a datacenter graphics processing unit that Nvidia created for the Chinese market in late 2022 as an export-compliant variant of the A100
NVIDIA B100
The NVIDIA B100 is a data center graphics processing unit (GPU) based on the Blackwell architecture, announced by NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang at the GTC 2024 keynote on March 18, 2024.
NVIDIA B200
The NVIDIA B200 is a data center GPU based on the NVIDIA Blackwell microarchitecture, announced by Jensen Huang at NVIDIA's GTC conference in San Jose on March 18, 2024.
NVIDIA Blackwell
NVIDIA Blackwell is a family of graphics processing unit architectures and computing platforms developed by NVIDIA.
NVIDIA Blackwell Ultra
NVIDIA Blackwell Ultra is a mid-cycle refresh of NVIDIA's Blackwell data-center GPU architecture, announced at NVIDIA's GTC conference on March 18, 2025, and built for what NVIDIA calls the "age of AI…
NVIDIA DGX
NVIDIA DGX is NVIDIA's line of integrated artificial-intelligence supercomputers: systems that package the company's highest-end data-center GPUs, CPUs, high-speed NVLink and NVSwitch interconnects…
NVIDIA DGX B300
The NVIDIA DGX B300 is an 8-GPU AI supercomputer node built around NVIDIA's Blackwell Ultra architecture.
NVIDIA DGX Spark
NVIDIA DGX Spark is a compact, deskside AI development system, marketed by NVIDIA as a "personal AI supercomputer," that puts a Grace Blackwell superchip on a desktop and delivers up to 1 petaFLOP (1,000 TOPS)…
NVIDIA DGX Station
NVIDIA DGX Station is a line of deskside artificial intelligence workstations from NVIDIA, each marketed as a "personal AI supercomputer" that puts data-center-class compute next to a developer's desk rather…
NVIDIA DSX
NVIDIA DSX is a platform from NVIDIA for designing, simulating, building and operating large-scale data centers that the company calls AI factories.
NVIDIA Feynman
NVIDIA Feynman is the data center GPU architecture that NVIDIA has placed on its public roadmap as the successor to Rubin and Rubin Ultra, with a target of around 2028.
NVIDIA GB200 NVL72
The NVIDIA GB200 NVL72 is a rack-scale AI computing system that packages 72 Blackwell GPUs and 36 Grace CPUs into a single liquid-cooled rack
NVIDIA GB300 NVL72
The NVIDIA GB300 NVL72 is a liquid-cooled, rack-scale AI computing system that integrates 72 NVIDIA Blackwell Ultra (B300) GPUs and 36 Arm-based NVIDIA Grace CPUs into a single NVLink fabric, delivering 1.1…
NVIDIA GH200 Grace Hopper Superchip
The NVIDIA GH200 Grace Hopper Superchip is a single-module processor from NVIDIA that combines a 72-core Grace Arm CPU with a Hopper-generation H100-class GPU on one package
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090
The NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090 is a consumer graphics card built on the AD102 processor of NVIDIA's Ada Lovelace architecture.
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5090
The NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5090 is a consumer graphics card built on the GB202 processor of RTX Blackwell, the consumer version of NVIDIA's Blackwell architecture.
NVIDIA Grace
NVIDIA Grace is an Arm-based data-center central processing unit (CPU) from Nvidia, built from 72 Arm Neoverse V2 cores with co-packaged LPDDR5X memory and a coherent NVLink-C2C interconnect that links it to…
NVIDIA Groq LPX Rack
NVIDIA Groq 3 LPX is a rack-scale inference accelerator that NVIDIA introduced at GTC 2026, built around 256 Groq Language Processing Units and designed to sit beside Vera Rubin NVL72 racks as a dedicated…
NVIDIA H100
NVIDIA H100 (also called the H100 Tensor Core GPU) is a data-center graphics processing unit built by NVIDIA on the Hopper microarchitecture, fabricated with over 80 billion transistors on a custom TSMC 4N (4…
NVIDIA H20
The NVIDIA H20 is a data-center graphics processing unit (GPU) that NVIDIA designed for the Chinese market to comply with United States export controls on advanced artificial-intelligence accelerators.
NVIDIA H200
The NVIDIA H200 is a data center Tensor Core GPU for AI and high-performance computing that was the first GPU to ship with HBM3e memory, packing 141 GB at 4.8 TB/s on its SXM and NVL boards.
NVIDIA H800
The NVIDIA H800 is a data center graphics processing unit (GPU) that Nvidia designed specifically for the Chinese market as a regulatory-compliant variant of its flagship H100 accelerator.
NVIDIA HGX
NVIDIA HGX is a family of accelerated-server platform designs built around tightly connected data-center GPUs. It is not one immutable board specification.
NVIDIA Hopper
NVIDIA Hopper is the codename for NVIDIA's ninth-generation datacenter GPU microarchitecture, announced March 22, 2022 by CEO Jensen Huang at the GTC keynote.
NVIDIA L4
The NVIDIA L4 is a compact, power-efficient data-center GPU built on the Ada Lovelace architecture and optimized for artificial-intelligence inference and video processing.
NVIDIA L40S
The NVIDIA L40S is a dual-slot, passively cooled data-center GPU based on the Ada Lovelace architecture.