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accelerator

[ak-sel-uh-rey-ter] / ækˈsɛl əˌreɪ tər /
NOUN
machine for giving charged particles high velocity
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The accelerator chips from the likes of SpaceX or Alphabet are designed to perform specific tasks with high efficiency, in addition to the computing that Nvidia chips can handle.

From Barron's • May 14, 2026

Samuel Wood-Soloff left Princeton this year and collected a half-million dollar check from Alliance Capital, an accelerator for crypto startups backed by prominent Silicon Valley investors including crypto-entrepreneur Balaji Srinivasan.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 4, 2026

In October, the company announced two chip-based accelerator cards and data-center racks as part of a plan to release multiple generations of AI inference offerings for data centers on an annual cadence.

From MarketWatch • Apr. 27, 2026

Having the lower limit means drivers are forced to do more 'lift and coast' - when they lift off the accelerator and let the car run before braking for a corner.

From BBC • Apr. 17, 2026

The Superconducting Super Collider, a multibillion dollar project that was contemplated until the early 1990s, was going to be the most powerful particle accelerator ever built.

From "Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea" by Charles Seife




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