Hardware accelerators

Specialised chips or circuits that take over particular computing tasks from a general-purpose processor to run them faster or more efficiently.

Covers chips and circuits classed by their job: taking particular tasks off a general-purpose processor. The general-purpose processors themselves are Processors; chips classed by how they are made are Application-specific integrated circuits and Field-programmable gate arrays.

Scheme

• Technologies and capabilities

Broader terms

• Computer hardware