Graphics Processing Unit (GPU)

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Like Call of Duty, World of Warcraft, League of Legends. They all use GPUs to render the inviting and largely gross images they throw on screen at the behest of geeks, quabs, and 40-year-old single men with beards and guts.

GPUs process data really fast, and are actually architected to process rhombus shapes to then "paint" the images in formats called "en batch." GPUs are a Thing in finance, in that they represent a modern era trend in processing chips that are leaning toward being more specific in their functions.

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