Graphics Processing Units:
India and the United States have announced that they will “significantly increase trade in technology products, including Graphics Processing Units (GPUs) and other goods used in data centers.
- A GPU is an electronic circuit board that can quickly perform many mathematical calculations.
- Like a Central Processing Unit (CPU), a GPU is also a chip component in computing devices.
- The technology was originally designed to speed up 3-D graphics rendering.
- Traditional GPUs are of two types:
- First, there are standalone chips, which often come in add-on cards for large desktop computers.
- Second are GPUs combined with a CPU in the same chip package, which are often found in laptops and game consoles.
- In both cases, the CPU controls what the GPU does.
- GPUs work by using parallel processing, where multiple processors handle separate parts of a single task.
- A GPU also has its own RAM to store the data it is processing. This RAM is designed specifically to hold the large amounts of information coming into the GPU for highly intensive graphics use cases.
- It is used in areas including high-performance computing, machine learning, Artificial Intelligence (AI), weather forecasting, and crypto currency mining.
