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Is it Time to Rename the GPU?

I was reminiscing last week about the GPU and having a friendly debate with my pals at Nvidia about the origin of the acronym. They of course claim they invented it, the device and the acronym, and within certain qualifications they did. The term was first used by Sony in 1994 with the launch of the PS1. That system had ...

Jon Peddie

I was reminiscing last week about the GPU and having a friendly debate with my pals at Nvidia about the origin of the acronym. They of course claim they invented it, the device and the acronym, and within certain qualifications they did. The term was first used by Sony in 1994 with the launch of the PS1. That system had a 32-bit Sony GPU (designed by Toshiba). The acronym was used before and after that referring to a geometry processing unit—GPU. TriTech introduced the Geometry Processor Unit in 1996 and Microsoft licensed it from them in 1998. It was part
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