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		pavlov on May 27, 2019 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Arm announces its new premium CPU and GPU designs Maybe “Parallel Processing Unit”, PPU?

earenndil on May 27, 2019 [–]

PPU is used as 'Picture Processing unit', essentially the graphics card of older 2d consoles.

floatboth on May 27, 2019 | [–]

Also was "POWER Processing Unit" in the IBM Cell that was in the PlayStation 3.

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