Graphics Processing Unit:
As many as six firms will develop Indian foundational Artificial Intelligence (AI) models using newly provisioned Graphics Processing Units (GPUs) by the IndiaAI Mission, Union Minister for Electronics and Information Technology announced recently.
- 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.
- Since its introduction in the 1990s, the GPU has transformed computer software and video games, allowing programmers to produce vivid and realistic images on screens.
- GPUs have been used beyond computer graphics in areas including high-performance computing, machine learning, Artificial Intelligence (AI), weather forecasting and cryptocurrency mining.
