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Re:TSMC Announces Intention to Build and Operate Advanced Se... by amaajemyfren on Friday May 15, 2020 @06:02AM (#23190518)
> More MACs equals more performance.

What does the acronym MAC stand for please?

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Re:TSMC Announces Intention to Build and Operate Advanced Se... by ebalit on Friday May 15, 2020 @06:08AM (#23190544)
Multiply and Accumulate. It's the hardware equivalent of a dot product. [0]

Sometimes it's also called FMA, for Fused Multiply and Add.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multiply%E2%80%93accumulate_op...

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