# hardware acceleration

> use of specialized computer hardware to perform some functions more efficiently than is possible in software running on a more general-purpose CPU

**Wikidata**: [Q600158](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q600158)  
**Wikipedia**: [English](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hardware_acceleration)  
**Source**: https://4ort.xyz/entity/hardware-acceleration


## References

1. Freebase Data Dumps. 2013
2. Quora
3. [OpenAlex](https://docs.openalex.org/download-snapshot/snapshot-data-format)