AI Glossary

TPU

Also called tensor processing unit

What does “TPU” mean?

TPU: Custom chip Google designed for machine-learning workloads. It focuses on the large matrix multiplications neural networks depend on. Google uses TPUs for its own models and rents them to customers through Google Cloud.

TPU visual guide: Custom chip Google designed for machine-learning workloads. It focuses on the large matrix multiplications neural networks depend on. Google uses TPUs for its own models and rents them to customers through Google Cloud.
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What is an example of “TPU”?

TPUs show that a company can build its own AI chips instead of relying only on general-purpose GPUs.

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