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Definition: accelerator card


(1) See graphics accelerator.

(2) A plug-in card that improves the performance of a desktop computer or server. Accelerator cards are used for cryptocurrency mining, artificial intelligence (AI), big data analysis and other compute-intensive operations.




Datacenter Accelerator Card
This earlier programmable accelerator card from Xilinx, now AMD, was used in datacenter servers to speed up operations such as machine learning. (Image courtesy of AMD.)