It used to be common in the computer industry not long ago to require separate PCI video cards to enable video processing, as the processing chips didn't include that feature among their limited portfolios. These cards were the predecessors of what we now called Graphics Processing Units (GPUs) which differentiate themselves from the pure CPUs in that they work more efficiently processing complex arithmetic algorithms in the mostly work on the Of course, back then the majority of basic software applications in use didn't require much processing power in general. However as the silicon processing technology has progressed, ever more peripherals are included in the logic cores of the microprocesor. One of which is the graphics processing unit
Specialty niches were emerging thouth, to satisfy the particular needs of selected tech savvy users who desired much more processing ability from their machines; so specialty design houses sprung to satisfy those needs and benefit commercially. One among many was NVIDIA
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