A custom-built AI chip from Google. Introduced in 2016 and used in Google Cloud datacenters, the Tensor Processing Unit (TPU) is designed for matrix multiplication, which is the type of processing ...

TPUs are Google’s specialized ASICs built exclusively for accelerating tensor-heavy matrix multiplication used in deep learning models. TPUs use vast parallelism and matrix multiply units (MXUs) to ...

Rick Osterloh casually dropped his laptop onto the couch and leaned back, satisfied. It’s not a mic, but the effect is about the same. Google’s chief of hardware had just shown me a demo of the ...

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