VPU

VPU may stand for:

• Vancouver Police Union
• Visual Processing Unit, enhancement of GPU, launched by 3Dlabs in May 2002, with the P10 VPU architecture which fits the Wildcat VP workstation graphics solutions.
• Video Processing Unit, a specialised processor for video decoding/encoding
• Vision Processing Unit, a class of processor intended for accelerating machine vision tasks
• Vector processing unit, special processor architecture with features of pipelining for vector processing referring to vector instructions and operands for processing.
• Viral protein U (Vpu), a regulatory protein found in HIV-1
• Vulnerable Prisoner Unit
• Parcel Van Unit or Van Parcel Unit, a boggie used for carrying cargo attached to a train OR many such VPU's forming a rake.