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CPUs are the most commonly used computing units in computers, providing the ability to transform bits and change process states. GPUs, originally used for graphics but now used for parallel calculations, are gaining popularity due to their ability to perform many calculations simultaneously. Regardless of type, a computing unit takes in bits representing data and outputs other bits, performing basic arithmetic operations, bitwise operations, and sometimes specialized operations like fused multiply-add.

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Computing

CPUs are the most commonly used computing units in computers, providing the ability to transform bits and change process states. GPUs, originally used for graphics but now used for parallel calculations, are gaining popularity due to their ability to perform many calculations simultaneously. Regardless of type, a computing unit takes in bits representing data and outputs other bits, performing basic arithmetic operations, bitwise operations, and sometimes specialized operations like fused multiply-add.

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Computing Units

The computing unit of a computer is the centerpiece of its usefulnessit provides the
ability to transform any bits it receives into other bits or to change the state of the current
process. CPUs are the most commonly used computing unit; however, graphics
processing units (GPUs), which were originally typically used to speed up computer
graphics but are becoming more applicable for numerical applications, are gaining
popularity due to their intrinsically parallel nature, which allows many calculations to
happen simultaneously. Regardless of its type, a computing unit takes in a series of bits
(for example, bits representing numbers) and outputs another set of bits (for example,
representing the sum of those numbers). In addition to the basic arithmetic operations
on integers and real numbers and bitwise operations on binary numbers, some com
puting units also provide very specialized operations, such as the fused multiply add
operation, which takes in three numbers, A,B,C , and returns the value A * B + C .

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