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 ...

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 ...

A new RISC-V Tensor Unit, based on fully customizable 64-bit cores, claims to provide a huge performance boost for artificial intelligence (AI) applications compared to just running software on scalar ...

Google is ready to open up its Cloud TPU platform to developers and researchers looking to test machine learning workloads -- and it's got a new, more powerful Cloud TPU design than the chips we've ...

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