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Sure, in the early 2000s. But today literally every laptop or desktop computer or phone with a touchscreen has a GPU. Even most feature phones have GPUs, I'd actually be interested to see if you could find a currently manufactured one that doesn't. And they have all been programmable for a very long time now. And almost without exception they have more FLOPS than all of the CPUs in the same machine put together, yes, even the integrated GPUs.



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