Google TPU

E660962

application-specific integrated circuit tensor processing unit

Google TPU is a custom-designed application-specific integrated circuit (ASIC) developed by Google to accelerate machine learning workloads, particularly deep learning inference and training in its data centers.

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Observed surface forms (2)

Surface form	Occurrences
Cloud TPU	1
Google custom processors	1

Statements (46)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	application-specific integrated circuit ⓘ tensor processing unit ⓘ
announcedAt	Google I/O 2016 NERFINISHED ⓘ
architecture	matrix-multiply optimized architecture ⓘ
availableVia	Google Cloud NERFINISHED ⓘ
category	data center hardware ⓘ machine learning hardware ⓘ
competesWith	AMD GPU NERFINISHED ⓘ NVIDIA GPU NERFINISHED ⓘ custom AI accelerators ⓘ
designedFor	high throughput matrix operations ⓘ low-precision arithmetic ⓘ
developer	Google ⓘ
firstAnnouncement	2016 ⓘ
firstPublicUse	2015 ⓘ
hasVersion	TPU v1 NERFINISHED ⓘ TPU v2 NERFINISHED ⓘ TPU v3 NERFINISHED ⓘ TPU v4 NERFINISHED ⓘ TPU v5e NERFINISHED ⓘ TPU v5lite NERFINISHED ⓘ TPU v5p NERFINISHED ⓘ
integratedWith	Google Cloud AI Platform NERFINISHED ⓘ
manufacturer	Google NERFINISHED ⓘ
notableFeature	high performance per watt for ML workloads ⓘ systolic array matrix unit ⓘ
offeredAs	Cloud TPU NERFINISHED ⓘ
optimizedFor	large-scale data center deployment ⓘ
purpose	accelerate deep learning inference ⓘ accelerate deep learning training ⓘ accelerate machine learning workloads ⓘ
region	global deployment in Google data centers ⓘ
supports	TensorFlow NERFINISHED ⓘ neural network inference ⓘ neural network training ⓘ
supportsDataType	32-bit floating point ⓘ 8-bit integer ⓘ bfloat16 ⓘ
technologyNode	advanced CMOS process ⓘ
usedBy	external Google Cloud customers ⓘ internal Google services ⓘ
usedFor	Google Assistant NERFINISHED ⓘ Google Photos NERFINISHED ⓘ Google Search NERFINISHED ⓘ Google Translate NERFINISHED ⓘ
usedIn	Google data centers ⓘ

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Graphcore → competition → Google TPU ⓘ

Tensor Processing Unit → availableAs → Google TPU ⓘ

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Google Silicon team → responsibleFor → Google TPU ⓘ

this entity surface form: Google custom processors