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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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"That works beautifully as long as everyone agrees the accelerator stays pinned to the floor. It becomes more complicated when the top dogs running the biggest AI engines start discussing speed governors."

From Barron's Sep. 15, 2026

They ended up working for a few months after the accelerator was over in Betaworks’ space.

From The Wall Street Journal Sep. 4, 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

A proton PeVatron is a natural cosmic accelerator capable of pushing protons beyond the PeV threshold.

From Science Daily Aug. 2, 2026

The Rad Lab’s idea was to develop a new type of accelerator.

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

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

Over the weekend, Samsung announced it would pursue a "strategic collaboration" for the "supply of industry-leading memory solutions, including HBM" -- supporting US chipmaker Broadcom's next-generation AI accelerators.

From Barron's Jul. 30, 2026

Samsung Electronics and SK Hynix are among the world’s leading producers of advanced memory chips, particularly high-bandwidth memory, a key component used in AI accelerators and data centers.

From MarketWatch Jul. 20, 2026

Particle accelerators are the microscopes of the subatomic world, and the more energy you put into those particles—the more powerful the microscope—the smaller the objects you can see.

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




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