Tensor Processing Unit

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A Tensor Processing Unit (TPU) is a specialized AI accelerator chip designed by Google to efficiently perform large-scale machine learning computations, particularly for neural networks.

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Google TPU 1
TPU node 1
TPU v1 1

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instanceOf AI accelerator
application-specific integrated circuit
neural network accelerator
advantage high throughput training
higher performance per watt for ML workloads
low latency inference
announcedAt Google I/O 2016
architectureFeature bfloat16 support
high-bandwidth on-chip memory
integer arithmetic optimization
systolic array
availableAs Google TPU
surface form: Cloud TPU

Edge TPU
category hardware accelerator
comparedTo central processing unit
graphics processing unit
designedFor deep learning workloads
machine learning workloads
neural network inference
neural network training
developer Google
firstDeploymentYear 2015
hasGeneration TPU
surface form: TPU v1

Google Cloud TPU V2
surface form: TPU v2

Google Cloud TPU V3
surface form: TPU v3

Google Cloud TPU V4
surface form: TPU v4

TPU
surface form: TPU v5e

TPU
surface form: TPU v5p
introducedBy Sundar Pichai
manufacturer Google
market cloud computing
edge computing
optimizedFor large-scale machine learning computations
matrix multiplication
tensor operations
supportsFramework TensorFlow
supportsPrecision 16-bit floating point
8-bit integer
bfloat16
usedByService Google Assistant
Google Photos
Google Search
Google Translate
YouTube
usedFor image recognition
natural language processing
recommendation systems
speech recognition
usedIn Google Cloud
surface form: Google Cloud Platform

Google data centers

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Google Tensor hasComponent Tensor Processing Unit
TPU hasGeneration Tensor Processing Unit
this entity surface form: TPU v1
TPU hasGeneration Tensor Processing Unit
this entity surface form: TPU v2
TPU offeredAs Tensor Processing Unit
this entity surface form: TPU node
TPUs (via XLA integrations) targetHardware Tensor Processing Unit
this entity surface form: Google TPU
Google infrastructure hasComponent Tensor Processing Unit
this entity surface form: Tensor Processing Units