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earenndil on May 27, 2019 | parent | context | favorite | on: Arm announces its new premium CPU and GPU designs

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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