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 ...

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 ...

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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A system-on-chip (SoC) from Google and Samsung for smartphones. The Tensor chip made its first appearance in Pixel 6 smartphones in 2021. Pixel Tensor chips contain the CPU, GPU and TPU (Tensor ...