A custom-built chip for machine learning from Google. Introduced in 2016 and found only in Google datacenters, the Tensor Processing Unit (TPU) is optimized for matrix multiplications, which are ...

At Google I/O, the company shared their next generation AI processing chip, the Tensor Processing Unit (TPU) v4. Machine learning has become critically important in recent years, powering critical ...

There are central processing units (CPUs), graphics processing units (GPUs) and even data processing units (DPUs) – all of which are well-known and commonplace now. GPUs in particular have seen a ...

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 ...

Google announced the sixth generation of its Tensor Processing Unit (TPU) for data centers, codenamed Trillium, at its I/O 2024 Developer Conference today. While a specific launch date wasn’t revealed ...