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accelerator

[ak-sel-uh-ray-ter] / ækˈsɛl əˌreɪ tər /
NOUN
machine for giving charged particles high velocity
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He also pointed to the company’s push into data centers with its chip-based accelerator cards to support running AI models.

From MarketWatch ● Nov. 4, 2026

Last year, one of Y Combinator’s startups needed 120 graphics processing units, or GPUs, for a two-month training run but couldn’t find a suitable contract, according to a person familiar with the accelerator.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 10, 2026

Another reason is regenerative braking, the process whereby when drivers release the accelerator, the electric car starts to slow down and uses the energy to feed the battery.

From BBC ● Oct. 3, 2026

He seeks to continue expanding local jobs, implement accelerator programs to support the development of small businesses and prioritize infrastructure to attract new businesses to the district.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 1, 2026

Alex twisted the accelerator and yelled out as the machine rocketed away, almost throwing him backward off the saddle.

From "Stormbreaker" by Anthony Horowitz

Telescopes and particle accelerators, for example, collect billions of data points – too large for the brain to comprehend.

From BBC ● Oct. 28, 2026

The special purpose vehicle will purchase Broadcom’s XPU AI accelerators and networking solutions to lease them to Anthropic.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 26, 2026

Physicists have spent years searching for evidence of these wakes at the Large Hadron Collider and other high-energy particle accelerators.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 6, 2026

“Demand for our custom AI accelerators and networking continues to be very strong,” Broadcom CEO Hock Tan said in a statement.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 2, 2026

Rabi, citing Berkeley’s three existing accelerators, suggested that Brookhaven should be given a chance to catch up.

From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik


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