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I think I remember seeing the term GPU used in a Byte article from the 80s? It was a while ago when I saw it (~15 years), so I can't really remember any details.

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Here's GPU (Graphics Processing Unit) in Byte Magazine from February 1985.

https://archive.org/details/byte-magazine-1985-02/1985_02_BY...

That seems to be what I remembered. I did try a few searches; But I didn't find it in the first few results of "byte magazine gpu" on Google, and my search on IA wasn't completing. I didn't feel like spending more time than that...

It’s always BYTE magazine. I think “backslash” is also on them.

There is a SIGGRAPH Pioneers panel where participants talk about the history of the GPU (you can find the full talk on YouTube, this is a summary article): https://www.jonpeddie.com/news/gpus-how-did-we-get-here/

  > Two years later, Nvidia introduced the GPU. He [Curtis Priem] recalls that
  > Dan Vivoli, Nvidia's marketing person, came up with the term GPU, for 
  > graphics processing. "I thought that was very arrogant of him because how 
  > dare this little company take on Intel, which had the CPU," he said.

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