It’s testament to the Nvidia marketing team that one of its buzzwords has now slipped into common parlance. Not only did the 1st-gen Nvidia GeForce 256 introduce us to its now famous GeForce gaming graphics brand, but it also brought the term ‘GPU’ to the gaming PC with it.
An initialism that we now use as shorthand for any PC graphics chip, or even one of the best graphics cards, started life on the PC as an Nvidia marketing slogan. To give you an idea of how long ago this was, I was introduced to the term "GPU" by a paper press release the same week I started my first tech journalism job in September 1999.
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