The usage is probably older than I know. The word is “compute” used as a noun. Mostly I’ve heard it in the depths of IT departments, but here’s a usage in an article intended for us normal geeks. “AV “stands for “autonomous vehicle.”
You’ll need a load of on-board compute, too. Future AVs could run on up to 500 million lines of code and produce terabytes of data daily.
https://www.morningbrew.com/emerging-tech/s/your-guide-to-autonomous-vehicles
Well, it is shorter than something like “computing power.”
The word is even in the diagram:
