Blitter
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A blitter is a circuit, sometimes as a coprocessor or a logic block on a microprocessor, dedicated to the rapid movement and modification of data within a computer's memory. A blitter can copy large q
Atari ST BLiTTER chip
Graphics processing unit
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A graphics processing unit is a specialized electronic circuit designed for digital image processing and to accelerate computer graphics, being present either as a component on a discrete graphics car
Blitter
…not overwrite the destination), and various ways of combining the source and destination data. Blitters have largely been superseded by programmable graphics processing units. In computers without hardware accelerated raster graphics, which includes most 1970s and 1980s home computers and IBM PC compatibles through the…
The ATI HD5470 GPU (above, with copper heatpipe attached) features UVD 2.1 which enables it to decode AVC and VC-1 video formats.
An ASRock motherboard with integrated graphics, which has HDMI, VGA and DVI-out ports.
Adage Graphics terminal from 1968 brochure
Atari ANTIC microprocessor on an Atari 130XE motherboard