Hardware AccelerationIt refers to the process of assigning very computationally intensive tasks to specialized hardware in a computer, which can reduce the workload of the central processing unit and is more efficient than software running on a general-purpose CPU alone. It combines the flexibility of general-purpose processors (such as CPUs) and the efficiency of customized hardware (such as GPUs and ASICs), and is often used in image processing.

Hardware acceleration is used to improve application performance in various fields, including but not limited to the following:

• Computer graphics processing via a graphics processing unit (GPU)
• Digital signal processing via digital signal processor
• Analog signal processing via field programmable analog array
• Processing sound through the sound card
• Computer networking via network processors and network interface controllers
• Encryption through cryptographic accelerators and secure cryptographic processors
• Enabling AI through AI Accelerators