Mathematicians love a good puzzle. Even something as abstract as multiplying matrices (two-dimensional tables of numbers) can feel like a game when you try to find the most efficient way to do it.

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 ...

Aalto University has demonstrated Tensor calculations using light. “Tensor operations are the kind of arithmetic that form the backbone of nearly all modern technologies, especially artificial ...

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 ...