GPUs evolved from simple display adapters to highly capable processors. IBM was one of the first companies to develop the foundational video cards, which were simple adapters for basic graphic display. NVIDIAβs GeForce 256 in 1999 was marketed as the first graphics processing unit (GPU), although it was essentially a graphics card using an NV10 silicon chip as a GPU. It combined transformation, lighting, and rendering functions. Modern GPUs are used for graphics and general-purpose computation like machine learning and scientific computing.
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