Nvidia popularized the term GPU by calling the GeForce 3 the first graphical processing unit, even though it didn't truly work that way. The marketing move created the perception that GPUs could handle complex computations, cementing Nvidia's dominance over competitors.
Nvidia exaggerated its marketing to crush its competitors. So basically when they came up with the term GPU, this is for the GeForce 3. They basically said, look, this is going to have its first GPU, the first graphical processing unit. But it in fact was not an actual GPU. They knew it would come in the future, but basically they embellished the marketing in the very beginning. And now everyone knows what a GPU is, right? Because you can run the complicated computations on the GPU, the graphical processing unit, and then let the CPU do the rest. But that's how they made that term so big. It was basically embellished marketing.
