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		rebolek 5 months ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Running GPT-OSS-120B at 500 tokens per second on N... I think that G was changed to "general", so now it's "general processing unit".

rpdillon 5 months ago | [–]

This doesn't seem to be true at all. It's a highly specialized chip for doing highly parallel operations. There's nothing general about it.

I looked around briefly and could find no evidence that it's been renamed. Do you have a source?

fouc 5 months ago | [–]

CPU is already the general (computing) processing unit so that wouldn't make sense

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