NVIDIA launched the GeForce 256, branding it as the world’s first true Graphics Processing Unit (GPU). Engineered explicitly for real-time 3D rendering arithmetic, this hyper-parallel hardware chip would decades later be discovered as the ideal hardware engine for accelerating deep neural network matrix multiplications.
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