Like the Apple II family, third-party acceleration units providing a faster CPU appeared late in the C64's life.

Four separate sources said that Kuntoro was in line to lead the new body, called the Development and Reform Acceleration Unit, which would be equivalent to ministerial level.

As part of the testing process in 1988, Derbyshire laboratory in the UK assisted the Oxford University radiocarbon acceleration unit by identifying foreign material removed from the samples before they were processed.

The on-die TrueAudio DSPs provide a better "silicon area to computing power" ratio and "power consumption to computing power" ratio for audio processing than the CPU, effectively making it an audio acceleration unit.