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accelerator

[ak-sel-uh-rey-ter] / ækˈsɛl əˌreɪ tər /
NOUN
machine for giving charged particles high velocity
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A casual wave from the marshals and then Nicolson stomped the accelerator, really hard.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 18, 2026

As England hit the accelerator, India became ragged - Shivam Dube had an awful time in the field.

From BBC Jul. 7, 2026

It was ready for the AI explosion, having already spent 15 years building an ecosystem made of four key parts: AI accelerator chips, CPUs, high-speed networking chips, and mature software that tied it all together.

From Barron's Jun. 28, 2026

Qualcomm’s high-bandwidth compute product is positioned against the high-bandwidth memory, or HBM, that nearly every leading accelerator depends on.

From MarketWatch Jun. 25, 2026

Of these projects, he identified two—Sloan’s X-ray tube and the accelerator, not yet known as the cyclotron—as “rather spectacular and important in their early developments.”

From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik

Samsung Electronics and SK Hynix are among the world’s leading producers of advanced memory chips, particularly high-bandwidth memory, a key component used in AI accelerators and data centers.

From MarketWatch Jul. 20, 2026

What Qualcomm has laid out is a full stack that spans CPU compute, AI accelerators, a new memory design and the high-speed connectivity that ties a rack together.

From MarketWatch Jun. 25, 2026

Venture firms are scouting campuses for young entrepreneurs, with a growing list of active accelerators and fellowship programs.

From The Wall Street Journal Jun. 22, 2026

Morgan expects financing for data-center infrastructure to stabilize around 2028, financing for chips and custom AI accelerators will continue to surge into 2030.

From Barron's Jun. 16, 2026

Particle accelerators are the microscopes of the subatomic world, and the more energy you put into those particles—the more powerful the microscope—the smaller the objects you can see.

From "Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea" by Charles Seife




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