Tensor Processing Unit (TPU)

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No More GPUs: Confronting the Fear of a Global Chip Shortage
Tensor Processing Unit (TPU)

No More GPUs: Confronting the Fear of a Global Chip Shortage

Advanced AI requires advanced hardware. What if the global supply of high-end AI chips dries up? Most of the world’s advanced AI processors are manufactured in Taiwan, where tension with mainland China is rising.

October 26, 20222 min read
No More GPUs: Confronting the Fear of a Global Chip Shortage
Tensor Processing Unit (TPU)

No More GPUs: Confronting the Fear of a Global Chip Shortage

Advanced AI requires advanced hardware. What if the global supply of high-end AI chips dries up? Most of the world’s advanced AI processors are manufactured in Taiwan, where tension with mainland China is rising.

October 26, 20222 min read
Trillions of Parameters: Are AI models with trillions of parameters the new normal?
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Trillions of Parameters: Are AI models with trillions of parameters the new normal?

The trend toward ever-larger models crossed the threshold from immense to ginormous. Google kicked off 2021 with Switch Transformer, the first published work to exceed a trillion parameters, weighing in at 1.6 trillion.

December 22, 20212 min read
Trillions of Parameters: Are AI models with trillions of parameters the new normal?
Tensor Processing Unit (TPU)

Trillions of Parameters: Are AI models with trillions of parameters the new normal?

The trend toward ever-larger models crossed the threshold from immense to ginormous. Google kicked off 2021 with Switch Transformer, the first published work to exceed a trillion parameters, weighing in at 1.6 trillion.

December 22, 20212 min read
Competition Heats Up in Mobile AI: Google Designed Its Own Tensor AI Chip for Smartphones
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Competition Heats Up in Mobile AI: Google Designed Its Own Tensor AI Chip for Smartphones

Google designed its own AI chip for its new smartphone — a snub to Qualcomm, the dominant chip vendor in Android phones. What’s new: Google debuted the Tensor chip last week

November 3, 20212 min read
Competition Heats Up in Mobile AI: Google Designed Its Own Tensor AI Chip for Smartphones
Tensor Processing Unit (TPU)

Competition Heats Up in Mobile AI: Google Designed Its Own Tensor AI Chip for Smartphones

Google designed its own AI chip for its new smartphone — a snub to Qualcomm, the dominant chip vendor in Android phones. What’s new: Google debuted the Tensor chip last week

November 3, 20212 min read
Computers Making Computers: How Google used AI to help design its TPU v4 chip.
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Computers Making Computers: How Google used AI to help design its TPU v4 chip.

A neural network wrote the blueprint for upcoming computer chips that will accelerate deep learning itself. Google engineers used a reinforcement learning system to arrange the billions of minuscule transistors in an upcoming version of its Tensor Processing Unit (TPU) chips.

June 16, 20212 min read
Computers Making Computers: How Google used AI to help design its TPU v4 chip.
Tensor Processing Unit (TPU)

Computers Making Computers: How Google used AI to help design its TPU v4 chip.

A neural network wrote the blueprint for upcoming computer chips that will accelerate deep learning itself. Google engineers used a reinforcement learning system to arrange the billions of minuscule transistors in an upcoming version of its Tensor Processing Unit (TPU) chips.

June 16, 20212 min read
Built for Speed: Nvidia topped MLPerf's training benchmarks in 2020.
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Built for Speed: Nvidia topped MLPerf's training benchmarks in 2020.

Chips specially designed for AI are becoming much faster at training neural networks, judging from recent trials. MLPerf, an organization that’s developing standards for hardware performance in machine learning tasks, released results from its third benchmark competition.

August 5, 20201 min read
Built for Speed: Nvidia topped MLPerf's training benchmarks in 2020.
Tensor Processing Unit (TPU)

Built for Speed: Nvidia topped MLPerf's training benchmarks in 2020.

Chips specially designed for AI are becoming much faster at training neural networks, judging from recent trials. MLPerf, an organization that’s developing standards for hardware performance in machine learning tasks, released results from its third benchmark competition.

August 5, 20201 min read
New Horsepower for Neural Nets: UK startup Graphcore released its Colossus MK2 chip for AI.
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New Horsepower for Neural Nets: UK startup Graphcore released its Colossus MK2 chip for AI.

A high-profile semiconductor startup made a bid for the future of AI computation. UK startup Graphcore released the Colossus Mk2, a processor intended to perform the matrix math calculations at the heart of deep learning more efficiently than other specialized processors.

August 5, 20201 min read
New Horsepower for Neural Nets: UK startup Graphcore released its Colossus MK2 chip for AI.
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New Horsepower for Neural Nets: UK startup Graphcore released its Colossus MK2 chip for AI.

A high-profile semiconductor startup made a bid for the future of AI computation. UK startup Graphcore released the Colossus Mk2, a processor intended to perform the matrix math calculations at the heart of deep learning more efficiently than other specialized processors.

August 5, 20201 min read
Quantum Leap: Researchers build TensorFlow hardware for quantum computing.
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Quantum Leap: Researchers build TensorFlow hardware for quantum computing.

Quantum computing has made great strides in recent years, though it still faces significant challenges. If and when it gets here, machine learning may be ready for it.

March 18, 20202 min read
Quantum Leap: Researchers build TensorFlow hardware for quantum computing.
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Quantum Leap: Researchers build TensorFlow hardware for quantum computing.

Quantum computing has made great strides in recent years, though it still faces significant challenges. If and when it gets here, machine learning may be ready for it.

March 18, 20202 min read
David Patterson — Faster Training and Inference: Using MLPerf to test new AI hardware
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David Patterson — Faster Training and Inference: Using MLPerf to test new AI hardware

Billions of dollars invested to create novel AI hardware will bear their early fruit in 2020. Google unleashed a financial avalanche with its tensor processing unit in 2017.

January 1, 20201 min read

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