Why do we call them GPUs these days?

Most GPUs, sitting in racks in datacenters, aren't "processing graphics" anyhow.

General Processing Units

Gross-Parallelization Units

Generative Procedure Units

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Greed Processing Units

This is just brilliant!

General Parallel Units

Sometimes Gibberish Producing Units

Gibberish Pipeline Units

The dedicated term GPGPU [0] didn't catch on.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/General-purpose_computing_on_g...

VPU. Vector/Video Processing Unit.

  CPU = Compute
  GPU =  Impute