Motius Glossary

The Motius Literary Index provides an alphabetical overview of the terms we use on our website.

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Hardware Acceleration

Hardware acceleration refers to the use of specialized hardware components to offload and expedite certain computing tasks or processing operations that would otherwise be performed by the general-purpose CPU (Central Processing Unit). By leveraging dedicated hardware, specific operations can be executed more efficiently and with greater speed, leading to improved performance and reduced workload on the CPU.