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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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Competition among the industry's leading players is so fierce, with hundreds of billions of dollars in investment at stake, that none of them is willing to risk easing off the accelerator alone.

From Barron's Sep. 13, 2026

In Sur’s view, the fears around Broadcom’s competitive positioning as the top partner for Google’s tensor processing units, or AI accelerator chips, “are overstated.”

From MarketWatch Sep. 1, 2026

I squeezed the accelerator and off we went.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 22, 2026

An international research team led by Hiroshima University confirmed the galactic accelerator after combining observations from three major observatories operating on Earth and in space.

From Science Daily Aug. 2, 2026

This conception of a compact and electrically efficient accelerator synthesized several established principles into a novel whole.

From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik

The report says AI infrastructure is moving toward a multi-architecture model, in which GPUs and proprietary AI accelerators coexist, increasing demand for advanced interconnect technologies.

From The Wall Street Journal Sep. 9, 2026

That leaves the two biggest names in AI accelerators betting opposite ways on whether a chip needs to be flexible.

From MarketWatch Aug. 20, 2026

Standard balloons, made of natural rubber, undergo sulphur vulcanization, with accelerators, activators and other substances added, said the scientists at Imperial.

From BBC Aug. 13, 2026

Some reach energies greater than those produced by human-built particle accelerators.

From Science Daily Aug. 2, 2026

The present generation of particle accelerators can collide particles at energies of about one hundred GeV, and machines are planned that would raise this to a few thousand GeV.

From "A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays" by Stephen Hawking




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