AI accelerator Computational Infrastructure
noun phrase
Definition: A specialized hardware device or processor architecture designed to execute AI workloads, especially neural-network operations, more efficiently than general-purpose processors by optimizing for parallelism, data movement, and matrix-heavy computation [Huang et al. 2025].
Example in context: “When enabling the AI accelerator, the NPU reached an improvement to 0.12 mJ, and the TPU showed an improvement to 0.37 mJ.” [Schauer et al. 2025].
Synonyms: AI accelerator chip; AI accelerator hardware
Related terms: NPU; TPU; hardware accelerator; edge AI processor