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The article states "this operation involved chips made to convert analog signals to digital". So not GPUs, or even CPUs, but specialized ADC (Analog-to-digital converter) chips.
I thought those were built into the chip wafers nowadays. They still have seperate on-board chips for ADC?
Depends on the chip. A purpose built SOC may have them built in, but there's always more generic applications for a standalone ADC