English to Chinese Tech/Engineering Computers: Hardware

The '734 patent calls the basic hardware unit a PE, or 'processor element'. Rather confusingly, a PE consists of a 'processor unit' or PU, and an array of attached, er, processing units or APUs. The patent, Tom notes, says that the "preferred" PE configuration is eight APUs. The "preferred embodiment" of an APU is 128kb of SRAM, 128 x 128-bit registers, four integer units and four floating point units. Some of these may be specialized for tasks such as shading.