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           					These include a CPU (central processing unit), GPU (graphics processing unit), memory and other elements. 
            					  		    					
           					 BBC: Samsung upgrades Texas mobile device chip factory 
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           					Imagination had previously been more successful at licensing graphics processing unit (GPU) designs. 
            					  		    					
           					 BBC: Imagination challenges ARM with Mips takeover 
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           					The Cray XK7 system contains 18, 688 nodes, with each holding a 16-core AMD Opteron 6274 processor and an NVIDIA Tesla K20 graphics processing unit (GPU) accelerator. 
            					  		    					
           					 ENGADGET: Cray's Jaguar supercomputer upgraded with NVIDIA Tesla GPUs, renamed Titan 
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           					The Graphics Processing Unit (GPU) has been enhanced in a number of ways, principally to allow for easier use of the GPU for general purpose computing (GPGPU) such as physics simulation. 
            					  		    					
           					 ENGADGET: Sony unveils its next game console, the PlayStation 4, arriving in holiday 2013 
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           					By contrast an Nvidia graphics processing unit, or GPU, renders graphics by simultaneously hashing out the same problem for multiple pixels: textures, lighting and smooth rendering of shapes flying across the screen. 
            					  		    					
           					 FORBES: Shoot To Kill 
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           					The graphics processing unit (GPU) "has become a much more important processor in a system than it was just a few years ago, when everything was 2-D in nature, " says Sam Blackman, chief executive of Elemental Technologies, a company that builds video-processing software that runs on Nvidia's gear. 
            					  		    					
           					 FORBES: Intel Grinds Toward Graphics