TPU
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A TPU (Tensor Processing Unit) is a specialized hardware accelerator designed by Google to efficiently perform large-scale machine learning and deep learning computations.
All labels observed (10)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| TPU v5e | 2 |
| TPU v5p | 2 |
| TPU canonical | 1 |
| TPU VM | 1 |
| TPU pod | 1 |
| TPU v1 | 1 |
| TPU v3 | 1 |
| TPU v4 | 1 |
| TPU v5lite | 1 |
| Tensor G3 TPU | 1 |
Statements (51)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
AI accelerator
ⓘ
application-specific integrated circuit ⓘ tensor processing unit ⓘ |
| architectureType | systolic array ⓘ |
| availableVia |
Google Cloud
ⓘ
surface form:
Google Cloud Platform
|
| competesWith |
FPGA-based accelerators
ⓘ
GPU ⓘ |
| componentOf |
Google Cloud
ⓘ
surface form:
Google Cloud AI infrastructure
|
| deploymentModel |
cloud service
ⓘ
on-premise appliance (TPU pods) ⓘ |
| designedBy | Google ⓘ |
| firstDeploymentContext | Google data centers ⓘ |
| firstIntroducedBy | Google ⓘ |
| hasGeneration |
Tensor Processing Unit
ⓘ
surface form:
TPU v1
Tensor Processing Unit ⓘ
surface form:
TPU v2
TPU self-linksurface differs ⓘ
surface form:
TPU v3
TPU self-linksurface differs ⓘ
surface form:
TPU v4
TPU self-linksurface differs ⓘ
surface form:
TPU v5e
TPU self-linksurface differs ⓘ
surface form:
TPU v5lite
TPU self-linksurface differs ⓘ
surface form:
TPU v5p
|
| keyFeature |
energy efficiency for ML workloads
ⓘ
high throughput for matrix operations ⓘ tight integration with Google data center network ⓘ |
| manufacturer | Google ⓘ |
| offeredAs |
TPU
self-linksurface differs
ⓘ
surface form:
TPU VM
Tensor Processing Unit ⓘ
surface form:
TPU node
TPU self-linksurface differs ⓘ
surface form:
TPU pod
|
| optimizedFor |
large-scale linear algebra
ⓘ
matrix multiplication ⓘ tensor operations ⓘ |
| programmedWith |
TensorFlow high-level APIs
ⓘ
TPUs (via XLA integrations) ⓘ
surface form:
XLA (Accelerated Linear Algebra)
|
| supportsFramework |
JAX
ⓘ
PyTorch ⓘ
surface form:
PyTorch (via XLA or specialized backends)
TensorFlow ⓘ |
| supportsNumericFormat |
bfloat16
ⓘ
float32 ⓘ int8 ⓘ |
| targetWorkload |
computer vision models
ⓘ
natural language processing models ⓘ recommendation systems ⓘ speech recognition models ⓘ training large language models ⓘ |
| usedByService |
Google Assistant
ⓘ
Google Photos ⓘ Google Search ⓘ Google Translate ⓘ |
| usedFor |
deep learning workloads
ⓘ
machine learning workloads ⓘ neural network inference ⓘ neural network training ⓘ |
Referenced by (12)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Tensor G3 TPU
this entity surface form:
TPU v3
this entity surface form:
TPU v4
this entity surface form:
TPU v5e
this entity surface form:
TPU v5p
this entity surface form:
TPU v5lite
this entity surface form:
TPU v1
this entity surface form:
TPU v5e
this entity surface form:
TPU v5p