{"id":21475,"date":"2026-02-08T12:46:21","date_gmt":"2026-02-08T07:16:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=21475"},"modified":"2026-02-09T15:46:07","modified_gmt":"2026-02-09T10:16:07","slug":"gpu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/gpu\/","title":{"rendered":"Graphics Processing Units (GPU)"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><b>Graphics Processing Units (GPU) Latest News<\/b><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">India and the United States have announced that they will \u201csignificantly increase trade in technology products, including Graphics Processing Units (GPUs) and other goods used in data centers.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><b>About Graphics Processing Units (GPU)<\/b><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">A GPU is an <\/span><b>electronic circuit board<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> that can quickly perform <\/span><b>many mathematical calculations.\u00a0<\/b><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Like a central processing unit (CPU), a GPU is also a chip component in computing devices.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The technology was originally designed to <\/span><b>speed up 3-D graphics rendering.<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Traditional GPUs come in two main flavours.<\/span>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">First, there are <\/span><b>standalone chips,<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> which often <\/span><b>come in add-on cards<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> for large desktop computers.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Second are <\/span><b>GPUs combined with a CPU<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> in the same chip package, which are often found in laptops and game consoles such as the PlayStation 5.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In both cases, the CPU controls what the GPU does.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><b>Working of GPU<\/b>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">GPUs <\/span><b>work by using parallel processing,<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> where multiple processors handle separate parts of a single task.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">A GPU will also <\/span><b>have its own RAM to store<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> 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.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><b>Applications:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> It is used in areas including <\/span><b>high-performance computing, machine learning<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, artificial intelligence (AI), <\/span><b>weather forecasting,<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> and crypto currency mining.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>Source: <\/b><a href=\"https:\/\/indianexpress.com\/article\/explained\/explained-economics\/india-us-gpu-data-centre-10518672\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">IE<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A GPU is a specialised chip built for fast parallel processing, first designed for 3D graphics rendering and now widely used in AI &#038; high-performance computing. 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